Turn off the screen while VNC

[lichung]

basically I have installed a VNC client in XP
Is there a simple way to turn off the screen while I am doing VNC to the joggler?

[Mevi]

That would be good, but I'm not sure there's a way to do it easily - VNC outputs whatever is on the screen.

The best I can suggest is that you change the background colour to black and over vnc, change the desktop resolution to 1024x768 - the Joggler won't be able to display that resolution and will just show the desktop colour... black. Over VNC, you'll see everything.

[neogramps]

When I was runing Xubuntu on my Joggler - if I VNC'd in once the screen had been shut down by the power settings, it didn't wake the screen up again. The only way to get it to wake was tapping the screen itself or moving the mouse connected to the my usb hub.

[pete]

You can utilize the "nircmd" / batch file installed by default. I use it today for the automation stuff.

IE:

%windir%\system32\nircmd.exe screensaver

%windir%\system32\nircmd.exe monitor off

%windir%\system32\nircmd.exe monitor on

You can utilize scheduler to automate the above commands if you want to.

I also utilize a custom written script which opens a transport tunnel to the Joggler which lets me remote it sans VNC; still utilize VNC though for this or that.