elementary hot corner to blank screen

Currently using Freya on a T60 and wanted to turn off the screen on demand.

Using elementary's Hot Corners function, it's possible to set up a corner of your screen to respond to the mouse pointer this way, going blank, while the computer remains on (not suspend mode).

To do this, go to System Settings > Desktop > Hot Corners as below:

On the corner of your choice, click on the drop-down menu and select "Execute Custom Command" and copy the code below on the field "Custom Command", as shown above.

xset dpms force off


After this, whenever your mouse pointer hits the chosen corner, the screen will go blank until some activity occurs (mouse or keyboard activity).

Credit goes to neonsignal from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/a-command-to-make-the-screen-go-blank-839037/

New version of elementaryOS coming!

It looks like Freya final version is finally coming out:

Pear OS 8 countdown

Pear Linux, also known as Pear OS, is a Linux Distro based on Ubuntu that mimics Apple's OS X look and feel.

Pear OS resembles elementaryOS, not only because they're both OS X styled, but also for they have both created simple lightweight applications aiming simplicity and usefullness.  But until now Pear OS has achieve only half of elementaryOS' popularity (as measured by distrowatch), but this may change soon.

At Pear OS' website, there is now a countdown, pretty much like elementaryOS had on August, before the release of Luna.

At distrowatch, Pear OS is defined as: 

a French Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution. Some of its features include ease-of-use, custom user interface with a Mac OS X-style dockbar, and out-of-the-box support for many popular multimedia codecs.

 So... we're also curious, but wait a short while and come back on November 8 to see what's new, good and bad in Pear OS 8!