[MPlayer-users] Re: turn off cursor

[Jonathan Rogers]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
>>This will turn it off:
>>#setterm -cursor off
>>But I have to log in and run it locally.  - is there some way to do it from the remote shell?
>>
>>Same for #setterm -blank 0 - If I don't do that, the screen saver kicks in and turns off the monitor while I am watching the movie.
> 
> 
> Redirect stdin/out/err from the terminal attached to the console.

Just stdout is all you need, like this:

setterm -blank 0 -cursor off >/dev/vc/1

Of course, replace "/dev/vc/1" with the actual name of your virtual console.

Jonathan Rogers