Question How to switch on / off monitor to save power?

[Kletoss]

How could one easily / fast with a shortcut or key turn the monitor off (may be on as well), respectively make it black WITHOUT turning off the music (played with a music player program and output through an external amplifier, Pioneer VSX-830-K, connected with HDMI cable to the notebook, respectively the music then is outputted over the notebooks speakers) to save power on a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 17ABA7 Laptop - Type 82RQ (Lenovo IdeaPad 3 82RQ003EGE)?

Is there a way to automatically let the monitor turn off / on WITHOUT stopping the music / audio output?

 

[lvt]

There should be an option in the Settings / Power management page to turn off the monitor after xx minutes.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Yes, but if the speakers are in the monitor, such as a laptop, turning off, the monitor, might also disable the speakers

 

[Kletoss]

There should be an option in the Settings / Power management page to turn off the monitor after xx minutes.

Yes, that is absolutely true, but:

Is there a way to automatically let the monitor turn off / on WITHOUT stopping the music / audio output?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Is there a way to automatically let the monitor turn off / on WITHOUT stopping the music / audio output?

Only if the monitor itself contains such a mode, which I've never heard of one that does.

 

[Kletoss]

That's a pity, many thanks!

 

[lvt]

That's a pity, many thanks!

Try this, if there is a button to switch between screen and external monitor (on my Thinkpad is the combo Fn + F7), you can temporarily switch to external monitor (there isn't one actually), the laptop's LCD should turn off until you switch it back again.

 

[lvt]

Oh, on my old Thinkpad there even is a dedicated button to switch off the LCD (Fn + F3).

Unfortunately those buttons only work with Windows, I can't use them with Linux. Under Linux only the volume and brightness buttons work.

 

[Kletoss]

Try this, if there is a button to switch between screen and external monitor (on my Thinkpad is the combo Fn + F7), you can temporarily switch to external monitor (there isn't one actually), the laptop's LCD should turn off until you switch it back again.

Yes, the same as pressing WIN+P, I assume. Yes, that somehow more or less works, that's what I do all the time for now, but it is quite inconvenient to do that often a day. And it causes some negative circumstances, e.g. some windows / window sizes change and their positions, etc.

Oh, on my old Thinkpad there even is a dedicated button to switch off the LCD (Fn + F3).

I wished I had something like that here, that increases the brightness.

Unfortunately those buttons only work with Windows, I can't use them with Linux. Under Linux only the volume and brightness buttons work.

Oops, I would have thought Windows and Linux behave the same way here.

 

[lvt]

BTW what the Fn+F6 does on your laptop? I've read that on some Ideapad it's to turn off the LCD?

 

[Kletoss]

Yes, I have read that, too. But unfortunately it increases the brightness.

Sorry, I meant before Fn+F3 increases the volume.