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RedDk wrote: So, yeah, I guess "No" is really the most useful thing anyone would expect to gain by typing the question, or any question for that matter, into that pile of ... nonsense.
You were suggesting that the monitor should go blank/black, so I'm expecting arguments. There were none, so I'm inclined to be brief.
Give some arguments why it should, and maybe I'll explain my answer.
RedDk wrote: So thanks for this.
You're most welcome 
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This barrage of displays for instance:
https://www.codeproject.com/script/Content/ImageUploads/f4ac59dc-aa36-4cd2-b0a7-6f6553e1adeb-small.png[^]
If those images of an oil platform were, as I anticipate someone will tell me, wallpaper on a desktop, not there and only the color BLACK was being used as the background ... and no icons were present on that desktop, I would expect both monitors to power down and present a powerless, non-LCD heating, void ... that is, technically, a no-signal (though the monitor "knows" not to begin displaying a message in "pong" mode (text scurrying about an invisible set of Escher staircases on the screen) because the monitors are still connected to the graphics card which in turn is still powered by the computer to which the other two monitors are attached too)).
But if I move my cursor (mouse) through the monitors (the array of system metric or desktop dimension currently "powered") the signal would turn to power up and that cursor/pointer/whatever would be backlit by the BLACK desktop color chosen.
modified 6-Dec-19 14:19pm.
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The monitor does not know when the mouse is moved, nor should it.
I like black screens; you can SEE that they are not broken, just displaying nothing. It is also quicker to display from "nothing" to anything then when you turn it on first.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Alright, perhaps the idiosyncratic mouse mentioned was a poor choice of a computer object to use in a description of the environment seen in the image to which I pointed.
The desktop wallpaper. Let us assume that that's what I'm seeing on that backplane there on the wall (poor choice of words, I know ... cheapness at the expense of expedience), if I were to go into "Personalize" and switch from "Background/Picture" to "Background/Solid Color/Black" I would perhaps gain no-picture and both of those displays would show BLACK as the desktop color. Yes?
Perhaps not, right? Because I see on the table where the keyboard is placed that perhaps the desktop color is lime green and there is currently an open window displaying Codeproject on a web browser and there's no oil platform anywhere behind any of the stuff displayed there. Assume now then that that lime green monitor is being designated as the MAIN DISPLAY. But perhaps not again; both of those monitors, attached to some video cards, might be primary and lime green because they are being STRETCHED (MOSAIC'D/whatever) under the control of that video card. Whatever the case might be, I'd expect whatever background displayed on the MAIN DISPLAY to always be powered up in the normal running of the OS.
Even if there was no mouse cursor being used on the MAIN DISPLAY?
That is not a possibility is it? No icons; a possibility.
Anyway ... to put a period where a period is due in this thread, if on one of many extraneous monitors attached to one or more video cards on one computer, there were no icons, no toolbars, no open windows, etc ... I would expect that the blackness (yes I refer directly to the background "Solid Color" chosen in the "Personalize" dialog) would usurp any tendency for that monitor to actively display any signs of being powered-on ... and appear completely signalless and dark.
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RedDk wrote: if I were to go into "Personalize" and switch from "Background/Picture" to "Background/Solid Color/Black" I would perhaps gain no-picture and both of those displays would show BLACK as the desktop color. Yes?
Yes; which makes it harder to see if the system is standby, and should not even be an option.
RedDk wrote: would usurp any tendency for that monitor to actively display any signs of being powered-on ... and appear completely signalless and dark.
You mean to say "play dead".
It's a missed opportunity; a screensaver could display a lot of useful information. As for playing dead, I would not buy it, simple as that. If it is on, it should display what the signal tells it to. Once screensaver-functionality comes to the display, it will not be used to power it off, but to display Google-ads.
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Ok, I'll bite.
"System in standby" By that you imply what ... that a screensaver is running? That ... the background (Windows 10) black is being displayed?
Flat out: in Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent and under the guise of a couple of PCIe video cards of various obsolete datelines of various manufacture and mixed monitor types/screen size/manufacture ... black was NOT displayed. Meaning all monitors with the exception of the MAIN DISPLAY (where the taskbar resides), powered down. That is, again, no signal, no heat, no nothing, todt, dead, fertig.
But pass a mouse through that dead desktop space and bingo ... power up ... white arrow. Return to MAIN DISPLAY, down go the houselights back there, no heat, dead.
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RedDk wrote: Flat out: in Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent and under the guise of a couple of PCIe video cards of various obsolete datelines of various manufacture and mixed monitor types/screen size/manufacture ... black was NOT displayed. Meaning all monitors with the exception of the MAIN DISPLAY (where the taskbar resides), powered down. That is, again, no signal, no heat, no nothing, todt, dead, fertig.
That is a sin.
RedDk wrote: But pass a mouse through that dead desktop space and bingo ... power up ... white arrow. Return to MAIN DISPLAY, down go the houselights back there, no heat, dead.
Windows will, when the SS is running, power down a monitor.
Which is wrong, ofc 
Nothing to display (which is nonsense) does not equal no signal, and no signal does not equate to not being active. One of my monitors helpfully displays "no signal" warnings when that happens.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Nothing to display (which is nonsense) does not equal no signal
From the standpoint of a user with a desktop where work is being done and multiple monitors are attached where that user's not moving his mouse, absolutely not true.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: no signal does not equate to not being active
No signal does not equate to not being active means no signal.
Why Windows 10 had to be any different from Windows Server 2008 though is anybody's guess. 
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RedDk wrote:
From the standpoint of a user with a desktop where work is being done and multiple monitors are attached where that user's not moving his mouse, absolutely not true.
Don't care, it conveys information that doesn't exist in you proposal.
RedDk wrote: Why Windows 0 had to be any different from Windows Server 2008 though is anybody's guess.
"Marketing"
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: you proposal
your proposal
I always took the to mean the same thing as "insouciance".
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Your indeed; my former English teacher would have been pissed at the error. Insouciance is a word we never had, so thanks for teaching me a new one.
I see it just as smiling
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No?
Of course it should, because it already is.
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And it works!
Every time I turn off my monitor it goes black!  (and it can go back!  )
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Super Lloyd wrote: and it can go back!
How? HOW? Pray enlighten us! 
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Yes, I will tell you little scarab.....
Come closer.. let me whisper it in your hear....
By using the Power On Button!
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bring back the CRT, cats have nowhere to sit on them LCD's
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That doesn't stop mine trying ... 
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See this board[^]? I have one of these. It's an expansion board for and against everything. I/O ports, cassette interfaces, EPROM sockets, two S100 bus slots and 4k SRAM. The RAMs used to get warm when the computer was running and were a perfect cat toaster. Forget CRTs.
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Your view is too narrow. Suppose I programmatically blank (perhaps to black) my screen. Does it now have nothing on it if that's what I put on it? What should it do, then, aside from a recursive death spiral?
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The longer middle finger in the stop sign must have been the first clue.
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This could be the plot for a Coen brothers' film.
/ravi
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He made quite a lot of money out of it, proving that walls work.
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Ah, that is brilliant. Thank you! Soft Border Patrol indeed
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