raymelon / minimalist-screen-sleeper

For those who have zero or broken screen power buttons, laptops with faulty Fn keyboard modifiers, or just wanting convenience or adventure.

Minimalist Screen Sleeper

A screen sleeper for those who have zero or broken screen power buttons, laptops with faulty Fn keyboard modifiers, or just wanting convenience or adventure.

Author	Raymel Francisco

What?

Technically a screen sleeper. For the love of Mother Earth.

How?

In Windows, it uses Win32 API's SendMessage().

For Linux though, xset dpms force off command is used.

Tips for best experience

• Pin the app to your taskbar for easy click or [WINDOWS KEY] + [NUMBER] combinations.
• Assigning a designated hotkey for the app eases its use as well.

Timeline

• August 2014 - Initial Development (v1.0 - v1.4)
• November 2015 - Conversion to Vala (v1.5)
• April 2017 - GitHub debut
• August 2017 - Linux support (v1.6)

License

Minimalist Screen Sleeper is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

See more on this app's LICENSE.md.

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