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.