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So i looked through the posts here and i found this helpful advice: Manually turn off monitor

I assigned a hotkey to turn my monitor off with the following code:

sleep 0.3 && xset dpms force off

However i was wondering if there is an easy way to keep the monitor off until the exact same shortcut is pressed. I usually turn off the monitor to save up some battery life and every little movement turns it back on (accidental key press, mouse move, or a touch pad contact).

Thanks for helping

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In Ubuntu 18.04, dpms not working properly with GNOME Wayland 

$ xset -q

DPMS (Energy Star):
Display is not capable of DPMS

You can try the command below,
to turn off monitor:

busctl --user set-property org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig /org/gnome/Mutter/DisplayConfig org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig PowerSaveMode i 1

To turn on monitor:

busctl --user set-property org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig /org/gnome/Mutter/DisplayConfig org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig PowerSaveMode i 0

It works for me.

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