Gimp shutting off monitor

[David McGlone]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 04:10:11 pm John DeCarlo wrote:
> 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?

True, but if I turned it back on, it would immediately shut back off.
>
> And have you used Ctrl-Alt-Del before with the monitor off, so 
you know all the keystrokes?

Never thought about that.
>
> 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.

I'll try that next time it happens. (If it does) What I've done so far 
to try and isolate the problem was switch off desktop effects and 
used gimp extensively I haven't had the problem so far.


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Blessings,
David M.
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