On Saturday 10 September 2005 00:33, Jerry Geis wrote:

Is am trying to find a utility to tell me if the monitor is physically   on or off?

DPMS is turn off so the monitor will not be automatically turning off - I just need to know if someone has turned off the monitor in an automated way?

I thought the VESA standard would have something like that but I have not found it.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

Thanks.

xset q

will show it - look for "monitor on" in there somewhere...

Peter.