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How do I blank out my screen
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Gene Wirchenko typed: From My Sig Collection: Lowery's Law: If it jams -- force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. Oh is that Lowery's Law? I have heard it many times, but I never knew that is what it is known by. Many thanks! -- Bill Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 |
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"BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Gene Wirchenko typed: From My Sig Collection: Lowery's Law: If it jams -- force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. Oh is that Lowery's Law? I have heard it many times, but I never knew that is what it is known by. Many thanks! -- Bill Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 http://www.anvari.org/shortjoke/Obse...ng-anyway.html |
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On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, wrote: On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote: In , richard typed: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done? press the power button on the monitor. That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-) Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-) The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop! You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate up with a video output. I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of the time. Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-) I thought it was now about goats. You're way too easily confused. That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'. Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning opportunity. Wolf K. |
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:
In , Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Wolf K writes: On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote: I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was playing. That seems weird. Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors keyboard/mouse input. Wolf K. Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems). Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a problem. But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped playing. So which video players exhibit this problem? I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD. I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had this problem, thanks. Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-) Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a non-youtube tab and it works as expected. I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it on others. Both ways work for me. -- Char Jackson |
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Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote: In , Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Wolf K writes: On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote: I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was playing. That seems weird. Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors keyboard/mouse input. Wolf K. Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems). Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a problem. But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped playing. So which video players exhibit this problem? I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD. I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had this problem, thanks. There are more applications it happened too. I just never kept track which ones it works and which ones it doesn't. You would think Windows is smart enough to figure it out, but I guess not. Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-) Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a non-youtube tab and it works as expected. I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it on others. Both ways work for me. I think the worst is when Windows focus is on the desktop. That almost never allows the monitor to blank. I just learned over the years to just never trust it. As sometimes it doesn't kick in when you want it and does when you don't want it. -- Bill Asus EeePC 701 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows 2000 SP5 - OE6 - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 |
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On 4/5/2012 6:25 PM, W. eWatson wrote:
On 4/5/2012 10:50 AM, John Williamson wrote: Bob Hatch wrote: On 4/5/2012 8:50 AM, W. eWatson wrote: I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done? Control Panel, Power Settings. :-( Or, right cick on the desktop, personalise, screen saver, blank screen. There's an option to go to power settings from there to set standby times for the monitor, and to change how the monitor is told to go into standby mode. Well, I to .../Power Options-Edit Plan Settings. I see Recommended Setting with its button depressed, so I click on Change plan settings way to the right. Turn off the display shows 10 min, and Put the computer to sleep shows 20 minutes. If Turn off is active I would think I would see the screen blank out every 10 min, but I don't. A week or so ago it did. If I click on Change advanced power settings, I see a Advanced settings dialog with choices like Hard disk, Sleep, PCI Express ... Nothing about a display. Did you take that same route and look further down in advanced power settings and change the multimedia settings? I would assume if you change that tab playing multimedia from "allow the computer to sleep" that it might be the way to go |
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:10:58 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:
In , Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote: In , Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Wolf K writes: On 05/04/2012 8:57 PM, Char Jackson wrote: I've never noticed the monitor blanking kick in while a video was playing. That seems weird. Depends on how the power saving is set. By default, it monitors keyboard/mouse input. Wolf K. Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems). Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a problem. But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped playing. So which video players exhibit this problem? I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD. I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had this problem, thanks. There are more applications it happened too. I just never kept track which ones it works and which ones it doesn't. You would think Windows is smart enough to figure it out, but I guess not. No, I never assumed Windows should be able to figure it out. I assumed it was up to the application to signal the OS that it wanted to override the default power settings. Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-) Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a non-youtube tab and it works as expected. I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it on others. Both ways work for me. I think the worst is when Windows focus is on the desktop. That almost never allows the monitor to blank. I just learned over the years to just never trust it. As sometimes it doesn't kick in when you want it and does when you don't want it. In my experience, one of the foolproof ways to make sure the monitor blanks when it should is to put the focus on the desktop. It's interesting that that doesn't work as reliably for you when it's 100% reliable on all of my systems. -- Char Jackson |
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On 06/04/2012 23:38, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, wrote: In , Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: [....] Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems). Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a problem. But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped playing. So which video players exhibit this problem? I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD. I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had this problem, thanks. I thought this was a Power DVD *plus* point. I haven't used Power DVD in years either but you certainly do not want the screen to go blank in the middle watching an XXX rated movie; or do you? -- choro Another thing annoying about the blank screen setting was I could walk away for hours and fully expecting the monitor to be blanked when I came back and only to find it is still on. So sometimes it just doesn't work. So I use something that actually works, the power button. ;-) Yeah, I mentioned an example of that above. View a youtube video, let it finish playing, and walk away. Somehow, it prevents the screen from going dark, even though nothing is playing anymore. Flip to a non-youtube tab and it works as expected. I use the power buttons on some systems, and I let Windows handle it on others. Both ways work for me. |
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:33:17 +0100, choro wrote:
On 06/04/2012 23:38, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:12:09 -0500, wrote: In , Char Jackson typed: On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:04:31 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: [....] Indeed. A lot of video players have a setting to override it, but not all (or, it doesn't work - the override that is - on some systems). Ok, three of you seem to think this is a problem, so maybe it's a problem. But it's not a problem with Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, nor with Firefox when playing youtube videos, or even with Firefox simply parked on a youtube video that has long since stopped playing. So which video players exhibit this problem? I know it was annoying on at least older versions of PowerDVD. I haven't used PowerDVD in well over 10 years, so I didn't know it had this problem, thanks. I thought this was a Power DVD *plus* point. I haven't used Power DVD in years either but you certainly do not want the screen to go blank in the middle watching an XXX rated movie; or do you? The "problem" we were talking about was that (apparently) some video players don't know how to let the OS know that monitor blanking should be suspended because a video is playing. I think we're all in agreement that the monitor shouldn't go dark while a video is playing, regardless of its rating. -- Char Jackson |
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On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:55 -0400, Wolf K
wrote: On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, wrote: On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote: In , richard typed: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done? press the power button on the monitor. That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-) Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-) The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop! You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate up with a video output. I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of the time. Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-) I thought it was now about goats. You're way too easily confused. That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'. Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning opportunity. Wolf K. Confusion is unlearning. |
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Allen Drake wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:55 -0400, Wolf K wrote: On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, wrote: On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote: In , richard typed: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done? press the power button on the monitor. That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-) Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-) The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop! You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate up with a video output. I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of the time. Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-) I thought it was now about goats. You're way too easily confused. That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'. Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning opportunity. Wolf K. Confusion is unlearning. Just the opposite actually. Well at least if you thought you were making progress anyway. ;-) "We have not succeeded in solving all of our problems. In fact, the solutions we have found have served to raise a whole new set of questions. In some ways, we are as confused as ever; however, we feel we are confused on a higher level and about more important things." -- (source unknown) "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 08:10:38 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:
In , Allen Drake wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:56:55 -0400, Wolf K wrote: On 06/04/2012 3:57 PM, Allen Drake wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:55 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:40 -0400, Allen wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:17 -0500, Char wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:08 -0400, Allen wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:59:48 -0500, Char wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:16 +0100, wrote: On 05/04/2012 21:45, BillW50 wrote: In , richard typed: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:50:54 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: I'd like to blank out my screen when the keyboard and mouse are not used for say 8 minutes. How is that done? press the power button on the monitor. That is what I do too Richard. Nothing else seems to work better. ;-) Unplugging it at the wall socket is much quicker! ;-) The CD/DVD writer on the laptop of a friend of mine had gone kaput. So I found him a stand-alone CD writer from a SH shop for $2. Told him about it. He went and bought it. I used that to install his program on his laptop. All well and good. But next time he wanted to use it, he managed to plug his laptop into the mains and then managed to install the mains cable for the CD player into the computer as well (rather than into the CD player!) -- right into the video output of the laptop! You guys have some strange connector configurations over there. On my side of the pond I don't think there's a power cable that would mate up with a video output. I think here you will find rather strange things mating up some of the time. Yes, of course, but we were talking about connectors. ;-) I thought it was now about goats. You're way too easily confused. That is my best trait. I have it as a disclaimer on my resume'. Confusion is a good. It means that somebody has a learning opportunity. Wolf K. Confusion is unlearning. Just the opposite actually. Well at least if you thought you were making progress anyway. ;-) "We have not succeeded in solving all of our problems. In fact, the solutions we have found have served to raise a whole new set of questions. In some ways, we are as confused as ever; however, we feel we are confused on a higher level and about more important things." -- (source unknown) "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be. |
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote: Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be. It's usually more than it's cracked up to be. -- Char Jackson |
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:48:28 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400, Allen Drake wrote: Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be. It's usually more than it's cracked up to be. Seriously it really depends on what you use for a comparison. I sure don't see the political process as a good example. If you are simply speaking in technological terms maybe. The world as a whole- I would say not. Progress only advantages a few. |
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:16:41 -0400, Allen Drake
wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:48:28 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400, Allen Drake wrote: Progress is not all that it's cracked up to be. It's usually more than it's cracked up to be. Seriously it really depends on what you use for a comparison. I sure don't see the political process as a good example. If you are simply speaking in technological terms maybe. The world as a whole- I would say not. Progress only advantages a few. Regarding that last statement, I couldn't disagree more, but this probably isn't the place to discuss it. -- Char Jackson |
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