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Re: undefined

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Post by optymizer » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 10:14 PM UTC

vbphprubyjsgo wrote: post #66

optymizer wrote: post #48

People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…

Cons: * power button is some gimmick optico fingerprint reading crap that is somehow less user-friendly than a light switch for 10 cents * turning the monitor back on will take 3-15 seconds, and due to above you may end up waiting 20 seconds to discover you didn't activate the button properly, depending on the monitor by all means, I don't intend to defend using a web browser to set the color of pixels

It's true. Under MacOS, one of my displays flickers 3 times when I turn it on, the other one twice. Somewhere along the way, we made a wrong turn.

Re: undefined

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Post by voussoir » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 1:10 AM UTC

bhickey wrote: post #44

Some months back I built http://keylight.us to use my second monitor as a light during video meetings.

It's always great to see simple and effective tools like this. I went ahead and downloaded the html+js into a single file to put in my arsenal. Maybe you could consider putting the whole iro.js into the initial pageload and turn this into a truly one-file tool.

Re: undefined

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Post by ek750 » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 1:53 AM UTC

optymizer wrote: post #48

People are posting all sorts of code one-liners to do this, but... what happened to just pressing the power button? Pros: * Only 1 keypress per display * The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default * It doesn't frustrate you by pointing out the dead pixels * Optimal energy efficiency * You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall * You don't have to know if…

I have a multi-monitor setup. I have three monitors, acquired over the years, of different manufacturers and sizes, and all have buttons on the bottom or back of the frame. I have to hit the buttons by feel. Usually it’s to switch inputs, but I think it’d be just as annoying to constantly turn them on and off via button.

The pursuit of aesthetics, in this case, is at the expense of usability.

Re: undefined

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Post by Tarsul » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

it's a cute little project that probably more people need/would like to have as one might think. Well Done. My solution for a long time was a shortcut to a blank screensaver. Nowadays, I have a shortcut for a screensaver that actually powers the monitor off - someone made that via AutoHotKey for Windows: https://www.dcmembers.com/skrommel/download/monitoroffsaver/

(although I'd wish Windows screensavers wouldn't go off through mouse movements.)

Re: undefined

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Post by iso1210 » Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

optymizer wrote: post #79

iso1210 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only 1 keypress per display Nope, two on my right hand monitor > The button is guaranteed to be present on all displays by default Nope, no button at all on the left > You don't have to customize scripts or settings on your OSs, even if you reinstall reinstall? What is this 1998? If I did have a new computer then when I restore my essential home directory (~/bin, ~/.vimrc etc) any script would be in there

> Nope, two on my right hand monitor That UX seems completely unnecessary > Nope, no button at all on the left Buttons are nice. You can press them. You can feel them. You can see them. > reinstall? What is this 1998? Believe it or not, in 2021, if you've missed the window to do a dist-upgrade before Ubuntu EOLs the release (which is much quicker on non-LTS), there's no easy way to upgrade the distro - the recommende…

I'd do-release-upgraded many 1404 machines after it went EOL

I don't know about Windows, nor care about it, I don't use it. I may have many OSes that I do use, but I only have one on my desktop with a monitor plugged in, and it's been the broadly the same for 21 years (debian, then ubuntu)

Yes the buttons on the monitors are rubbish, they're also what there is. My TV which has my monitoring screen and music on is controlled from a remote control, one button to mute, one to turn it off completely. If I didn't have the remote though, the button would be awful (it's on the back, and again is a multi stage menu system to turn off)