Gimp shutting off monitor

[John DeCarlo]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:05 PM, David McGlone <david at dmcentral.net> wrote:

> Today I was editing a photo in the Gimp, and my monitor completely shut
> off. I
> couldn't use any keys on my keyboard to switch to a console nor could I use
> ctrl+alt+del to reboot the computer. All I could do was do a hard reset
> using
> the power button.
>

Probably a stupid question, but ...

How do you know you couldn't switch to a console if your monitor was off?

And have you used Ctrl-Alt-Del before with the monitor off, so you know all
the keystrokes?

The reason I ask, is I had a monitor that turned off when the screensaver
came on.  And turning the monitor off and on didn't do anything.  So I
learned the keystrokes for Ctrl-Alt-Del, so I could try Logout, Suspend,
etc.  Pretty much all of them worked for me to get the monitor back on.

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