playing with the screens
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Posted by perkins on 21 May 2009 in diy | Short Link
I have 2 laptops. One, x41 IBM is old enough to have its screen suffer from the lamp degradation. Another one is IBM x61 wich screen recently has been cracked a bit. Across, to be specific. Both have the screen dimention in common, so our schedule today are: replace screen on x61 extract the lamp, [...]
Ubuntu / GNOME customisation
Posted by perkins on 4 February 2009 in IT | Short Link
I want to turn off screen at any time. > xset dpms force standby I want to assign a key shortcut to the command (taken from here). 1) alt+F2 to open up a run prompt 2) type gconf-editor 3) go into apps > metacity > global_keybindings 4) select one of the run_command_# and type your [...]