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Old 08-24-2013, 11:15 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
PS: Your Kpw is not 'going to sleep' it is only clearing the screen.
If it actually went to sleep, your ssh link would stop responding.
I think zxczxc is describing a peculiar scenario wherein:
  1. He's actually reading stuff on the PW (either directly or through vnc) and..
  2. He's doing page turning without touching the PW screen using xdotool(how?) and..
  3. He wants a means to 'wake up' the PW when it goes into screensaver mode

Obviously the KUAL helper buttons to disable/enable screensavers are not convenient here..

So.. the solution is..

Send command
Code:
/usr/bin/powerd_test -p
This either 'wakes up' the PW or puts it into screensaver mode..
meeting zxczxc's requirement of..
Quote:
is there any command that can be sent by terminal to keep the kindle alive?
as in, send the command, and then the kindle thinks it just received input, and won't sleep for 10 minutes, unless you send this again.

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