@jgoerzen BTW, I just noticed that in my notes from when I had to start setting consoleblank in some system (possibly from c. 2019--2020?), I have this: «Despite what the commit message regarding this change [1] says, consoleblank *does* trigger DPMS. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4199f5eb8096d63828f7333fa45650a7b0a99ed » But it's likely I was missing something else that happened to make this also trigger DPMS. Notes also say "setterm --blank" seem to change the same value for all VTs, or at least triggers the same behaviour I was looking for.