On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:07:08 -0700 (Seattle), Jeff-Relf.Me @. wrote:

Owl,

No one knows how to stop the mouse
from accidentally waking the monitor;
apparently, it can't be done.

Yes, it can and it is *easy*.

Switch off the monitor at the power button, wall socket or any
powerstrip between the two.

Of course then one must press a button each time one wishes to use
the thing but that simple, easy to understand operation has the added
benefit if saving power and thus being green and "saving the planet".

I expect you, given your history of objecting to everything anyone
suggests that could help you over many, many years, will find a flaw
in my suggestion.


I'm not "moving the goal posts"; I'm simply explained why
turning the monitor off/on is not an adequate solution to

Oh. Right. The flaw. It is "not an adequate solution".

I'm not impressed by that as an objection but no doubt you are.

my "no signal" problem ( flashing me 15 seconds after
the monitor is put to sleep { from a RANDOM awakening } ).

Don't put it to sleep. Push the little power button.

Or write a batch file to darken the screen and one to brighten it
back up again. Use them in turn.

Or simply have a screensaver that goes to a very, very dark image
then switches the monitor to power-down after one minute. Set it to
activate on mouse-to-screen-corner. That way, the manufacturer's
splash panel is never retrieved.


The solution is simple: point the monitor to the ceiling.

Idiotic, as this simply moves the flash from the monitor's position
to a large area of ceiling - in addition to a brighter, lightning-like
glare around the edge of the monitor, perhaps.

True, it won't be as glaringly bright on the ceiling but the
difference is probably going to be marginal when compared to the gloom
of the night.

Still, it's your sleep hours. If you want them interrupted, who are
we to suggest solutions?
Mand.