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[nooby]

Jemimah's pet for Wary and Racy worked well on Lupu528-004 too.
So thanks for making it and thanks for telling me and not giving up on me

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Sure I can do it manually on the Netbook's own keyboard
but to get rid of the noise from fan I have placed it on a shelf behind a screen
and I risk everything going down to the floor due to cramp space.

So to do the Fn+F6 on CLI, Terminal, Console, rxvt ? would be super!

I need to find out what number that key combination are or something?
How do I ask the terminal to tell and what command do I use to later
make use of that number it reveals? Would that be a unique number
for each computer or is it same all over the market?

[nooby]

May I kindly ask for help with this one?

[L18L]

[mahaju]

Fn key in laptop

[nooby]

Yes the I should have explained that part. Sorry.

Full key keyboards have very many keys.
So when they have a very small one then
they let same key do many "Functions" so
you have a blue color or a green or something
that says Fn and then you hold that one down
and then press say F6 key in the most upper row.

That press makes the screen go black on my small Netbook.

Now I want to know what "number" is it I should use for
to send same signals through the CLI, Terminal, Console
or Urxvt whatever name it has to send same instruction
to shut down the screen on the Netbook but not on the external screen.

Sure I can stand up from the chair and lean over and reach hand inside
the shelf and try to see where these small keys are and use index finger
and thumb and wish me good luck by accident hit the right combination

But I risk that the external screen hit the floor when I try to get out of the
cramped place on the shelf. I live in a very small room so I had to
build the computer shack as a compact living mess

Three computers, three external screens and two DVD recorders and one
VHS and a Mixer board and three external keyboards and three mouses
and so on. Loudspearkers and so on. It is like finding a needle in a haystack to hit the right key combo.

[trapster]

In a console, try this:

[nooby]

Haha that one was effective but sadly worked on both screens.
Sure it turned the internal screen off but also the external and
when I hit Esc to turn it on then it turned the internal one on too.

so one need to find the Fn +F6 number and only send that one.

Thanks for a good try though. Much appreciated.

[Aitch]

nooby
maybe something like:

[amigo]

Run 'xev', then press the desired key combination and xev will show you what code it is.

[nooby]

Amigo,

I did not know how to apply that command.
Am I supposed to write xev and then do the Fn+F6 and then
hit enter or am I supposed to first do the xev and then hit enter
and then do Fn+F6?

I tested both. none of them gave an answer that I understand.

one of them gave this

KeymapNotify event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys: 40 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x6d, subw 0x0, time 8813727, (584,282), root:(864,609),
state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
" XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0d) "
XFilterEvent returns: False

ClientMessage event, serial 39, synthetic YES, window 0x2600001,
message_type 0x10f (WM_PROTOCOLS), format 32, message 0x10d (WM_DELETE_WINDOW)
sh-4.1#

So maybe this is the answer?

keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), So what am I suppose to do
to send that command using the terminal then?

Aitch you may be right but I understand too little to dare do such complicated things. What in that code only affect the internal screen
and not the external screen.

[nooby]

Ubuntu has this text

[postfs1]

[Semme]

Nooby, try the grandr pkg- an xrandr gui. It may help simplify Aitchs`response..

Then again, maybe just dump: xrandr -q so we can see what's connected.

[Aitch]

grandr gui for racy/wary, by jemimah

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74692

manpages

http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/xrandr/

nooby guide [well almost nooby....newbie

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=927&num=1

Aitch

[nooby]

Thanks seems way above my capacity to grasp.
Surprising this is so difficult? I give up on it.