DPMS in one of two monitors

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Jun 21 17:01:16 UTC 2018


On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 17:30 +0200, Diego Cardinali wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the clarification. Then I wonder why the xorg.conf
> file gives you the chance to set it separately!

Accident, mostly. The config file syntax predates the wide availability
of multihead, so describing DPMS as a property of "the" monitor made
sense because you were only going to have one anyway.

- ajax


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