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Don't let the mouse wake up displays from standby

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Mar 15, 20266060 views
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Problem

I like to put my displays to powersave/standby mode when I leave the computer for a while. It would be ok if it weren't for oversensitive mouse. Sometimes the driver reads in some movement that's not visible to the naked eye (the cursor, that is) and it breaks the power save. It would wait for anot…

Error Output

xlock -startCmd 'xset dpms 2 2 2' -endCmd 'xset dpms 600 1200 1300' -mode blank -echokeys -timeelapsed +usefirst

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Fix for: Don't let the mouse wake up displays from standby

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There's a great post by @pbm that covers this, over on the Unix SE site. In short, first use to get the device ID for your mouse, and then use and to disable and enable the mouse. I've just tested these here by disabling the mouse and then calling .…

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