Turn off laptop screen automatically

Published on July 29, 2022

Edit the /etc/default/grub file adding the following to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="consoleblank=300"  # turn off the screen after 5 minutes

Then update grub:

sudo update-grub

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