[Sovled] How to disable screen on laptop when using it via ssh?

[m0t0m]

I am using my laptop as an CentOS 8.2 server. I would like to disable the display as I am only accessing it via ssh.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 running CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

So far I have tried:

• Vbetool, which I've used on Ubuntu https://www.systutorials.com/how-to-in ... entos-6-6/

• # setterm --blank force --term linux </dev/tty1 from a Red hat Forum https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3 ... nt-1184861

• xset -display :0.0 dpms force off https://askubuntu.com/questions/62858/t ... mmand-line

• xrandr --output CRT1 --off

Any ideas?

[KernelOops]

I had to do something similar, disable the laptop display because I was using an external monitor.

The way to do that, I had to ssh to the laptop as the user that was logged in as a GUI user (thus had permission to use xrandr) and discover the name of the laptop display:

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ssh user@laptop
$ DISPLAY=:0
$ export DISPLAY
$ xrandr | grep connected
eDP-1 connected
HDMI-1 connected

Now I know that eDP-1 is the laptop display and HDMI-1 is the external monitor. Now I can disable the laptop display by name. Reconnect and run:

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ssh user@laptop
$ DISPLAY=:0
$ export DISPLAY
$ xrandr --output eDP-1 --off

That works for me over ssh, but it does not work if I try that as a cronjob. I believe the correct way would be some kind of kernel argument in GRUB2.

[m0t0m]

I don't have Xwindow installed as I only use the shell.

When I use your commands I get

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[user@localhost ~]$ DISPLAY=:0
[user@localhost ~]$ export DISPLAY
[user@localhost ~]$ xrandr | grep connected
Can't open display :0

[m0t0m]

OK it works.

I installed added a GUI to my CentOS install and then your commands worked as you described.

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$ DISPLAY=:0
$ export DISPLAY
$ xrander | grep connected
LVDS-1 connected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
$ xrandr --output LVDS-1 --off

However I need the GUI to be able to run the commands. So I made CentOS boot into GUI mode, and now the screen turns off on its own when I do use it for a while.