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aadi

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Registered: 2016-05-28

Posts: 2

[Solved] Turn off display in Multi monitor

I am using a dual monitor setup and sometimes at night I would just like to turn off the other display while I am watching a video on primary one. If I reduce brightness to zero the screen is still slightly illuminated by the backlight. The only solution is to physically turn off the monitor. I don't want to stop rendering for that display. I just want to shut it for some time. Like if I turn off its display pins or something.

Last edited by aadi (2016-06-08 18:20:56)

stewie

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Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved] Turn off display in Multi monitor

Take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

and

man xrandr

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i_love_r34

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2016-02-14

Posts: 87

Re: [Solved] Turn off display in Multi monitor

You can lower the brightness to the screen.
See what is your secondary monitor with:

xrandr

and with:

xrandr --output $display_name_here --brightness 0.0

to put to 0 (like turning off the monitor)
and with:

xrandr --output $display_name_here --brightness 1.0

to put as a normal value

aadi

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Registered: 2016-05-28

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Turn off display in Multi monitor

Thanks

alex.theoto

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From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: [Solved] Turn off display in Multi monitor

If your problem is solved, please mark it.