From: SKRdJ@nowhere.net   
      
   On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:32:49 +0100, Mike wrote:   
      
   > In article , Rich     
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> ... whether or not the monitor is turned on?   
   >   
   >>> Maybe this is only querying whether the computer thinks the monitor   
   >>> should be active/blanked/part sleeped/deep sleeped,   
   >>> rather than interrogating the monitor to find if the power is on.   
   >>   
   >>What it tells you is whether X has used the DPMS signalling to instruct   
   >>the monitor to turn itself off.   
   >>   
   >>If you are looking for it being physically turned on/off, then this   
   >>method will not help detect that fact.   
   >   
   > So that very much depends on whether the OP *actually* wants to know :-   
   >   
   > "whether or not the monitor is turned on?" meaning at the power switch,   
   > or   
   >   
   > "whether or not the computer last told the monitor to ..." which is a   
   > different question.   
      
   	The first one: I would like to know whether the monitor is   
   physically turned on - i.e. plugged into the electric outlet and with the   
   power button in the on position.   
      
   	Can this be done from Slackware?   
      
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