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External monitor is too yellow

When I bought a new screen (Philips 227e4l) and connected it with my laptop (HP Compaq 6520) via the VGA port, the size of screen is right (1920x1080), but the color is wrong (too much yellow). How ...
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HDMI Monitor fuzzy and laggy

I have dual monitors, one 24" connected via VGA and another 23" monitor connected via HDMI, the monitor on VGA is fine, screen is clear at 1920x1080 however the HDMI connected monitor at 1920x1080 is ...
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Ubuntu 12.10. Can't add custom resolution

System: Ubuntu 12.10, nVidia Geforce GT240 (nvidia-current privative driver), LG display connected to VGA-0 The 1920x1080 resolution is not listed, I've added it in Windows but I'm having problems ...
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Part of an old window remains after program closes

After I close a program, part of the window remains open. The affected part of the screen remains as it was when the window was open, and it stays on top of other windows. It's not a redraw issue per ...
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Dark screen after updating from Ubuntu 10.01 to 12.04.2

Last night I installed Ubuntu 10.10 from an old disc I had lying around. I decided to update, as any sane person would want to, and found that I couldn't update to 11.04 or whatever it was. So I went ...
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How can I disable backlight when I lock the screen?

When I lock screen, the display does turn black but the display isn't completely off. There is some light coming out of the display in screen lock mode but it get turned off when inactive for 10 ...
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How can I solve my display issues?

Problem: installed ubuntu 12.04 i have 4 screens, only 1 works, the other 3 screens are white and the mouse is an X, it does not show them in displays, it just shows 1 screen, but when i go to nvidia ...
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Desktop not displaying properly

I have installed #lubuntu 12:10 onto an older Pentium 3 PC with 512mb RAM and 20gb HD. I cannot make out the desktop as it is not being displayed properly. The mouse leaves massive trails which ...
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Screen freezes or goes black when locking screen

I've run into a strange problem lately. I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Lenovo Ideapad Y550 and have been installing the recommended updates regularly. Things were running smooth until last ...
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AO522 ubuntu 12.10 several reboot incase of black screen

My acer aspire one 522 with a new ubuntu 12.10 or Kubuntu 12.10 installation (dual boot with win7) sometimes has a black screen but if I reboot once or more, I can login on desktop. How can I fix ...
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Desktop goes blurry / granulated

After few minutes using, desktop and fonts in unity-menu goes blurry. See screenshot: Closer image: In all applications (browser etc.) graphics seem to be allright. After rebooting problem ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 “Turn screen off when inactive for: Never” still turns off

After a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10, my screen still goes off after about ten minutes. I've been to the Brightness and Lock control panel. The Turn screen off when inactive for: setting is set for ...
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Strange Display Problem on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I installed 12.04 onto my Samsung NP550P5C Laptop. All went well. The laptop has an NVidia Optimus GT 650M graphics card, so installed the Bumblebee packages, still no problem can get increased ...
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How do I set the native resolution on an HP Mini 210-1004sa?

FYI: My Netbook model is HP Mini 210-1004sa, which comes with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150, and has a display 10.1" Active Matrix Colour TFT 1024 x 600. I recently removed Windows 7 Starter ...
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screen DPI - is there and equivalent command/action to Windows 150% Display

I have a wide screen of high resolution and I see everything small on it. So In windows I set the display to 150%, I would like to do something similar in Ubuntu. Simply changing screen resolution to ...
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Can Ubuntu launcher damage my LCD screen pixels?

There appears something like a scar (damaged or dead pixels) on my LCD screen, where Ubuntu launcher positions. The scar exactly fitting Ubuntu launcher edges and icons. It seems a permanent scar and ...
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I have a PowerBook G4 1.33 with Lubuntu installed successfully but the bottom half of the screen disappears sometimes while I'm using applications

This has been happening sporadically in various open applications and the missing information reappears when I sweep across it with the mouse pointer.
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How to change resolution to a higher value? [closed]

I have a 1400x900 monitor and the maximum resolution the monitor can reach in Ubuntu is about 1024x800. However, in Windows 7 64-bit, the monitor can reach the maximum resolution possible. Specs of ...
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How to change 16:10 to 16:9 display?

So I have a screen resolution of 1280x800 and I want to change it to 1280x720. But it gives me no option to do so. So how do I do it?
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Dual Monitor Maximize Problem

I have a laptop with an external monitor attached. However everything maximizes to the external monitor, no matter how or where I maximize the windows. I want to be able to have windows maximized in ...
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Why can I see multiple desktops on my laptop display?

I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 (dual-boot with Windows 7) and the image below shows the current display (6 multiple screens). Anyone know how to rectify this? Step-by-step instruction is highly ...
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How can I set the display resolution to 800x480?

I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a problem with it. My mini-laptop has a display resolution of 800x480, however Ubuntu seems to support only a resolution of 800x600. I have looked for a ...
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Display stays black after wakeup from suspend [closed]

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 on a 305u1a Samsung netbook with Radeon HD 6320 graphics. After suspend, my display stays black. The fans are starting and the harddrive-indication-light is working as well, so ...
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Display sleeps despite system's settings [closed]

I have disabled display sleep in every way I know: System Settings > Screen Disabling xscreensaver (not enabled by default, but double-checked) Browsing the BIOS settings Yet my display always ...
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GMA 3150 change resolution permanent?

I recently bought a Shuttle X35V2 with GMA 3150 graphics (great computer for the money). When i connect my monitor (native 1360x768) in only get two resolutions to choose from, 1024x768 and 800x600. I ...
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How to present a slideshow consisting of PDFs?

I need to present a slideshow on a projector. I know that if I use openoffice it can send a seperate image to the laptop screen and the projector. If I have some other application (like a PDF viewer) ...
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Dual monitors - Shifted pixels

The resolution looks fine size-wise, but pixels are smudged. This is mostly visible on thin writing, as if pixels were slightly shifted out of the intended grid. It always renders like that on one of ...
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Unknown monitor, intel driver, want to set VGA resolution to widescreen TV

I have a Sony Bravia LCD television, which is now plugged into my laptop using a VGA cable. I am running an HP Compaq laptop, with a video driver of: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel ...
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How do I set my screen resolution to the maximum supported resolution?

Used win 7 and got resolution 1280x1024 and when i installed Ubuntu 11.04 got resolution of 1152x864(made that possible by changing from the advanced option in the nvidia xorg file)went to system ...
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Why does my Thinkpad X220 screen get garbled after a while?

I am running 11.04 Desktop 64bit on my Thinkpad X220 which is brand new. I ran Windows on it for a few days and that seemed to run fine. It's still on there on a separate partition. Ubuntu installed ...
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Screen Corruption in half the screen only [closed]

About 50% of the my NATTY desktop screen is corrupted. Once that happens I can re-boot as many times as I want but the problem continues. If I logout and then into WINDOWS for a day I may be ...