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Display is out of phase - Ubuntu 13.04

I just install Ubuntu 13.04 on my PC. When start Ubuntu, the display is out of phase, I have a black bar in the middle of display (is divided for this black bar). I suspend my PC and then try to ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 put resolution at 1024x768

After the installation of Ubuntu 13.04, I have the resolution at 1024x768 instead of 1280x800, and even after switching all the possible drivers in Settings, the situation doesn't change. Plus, this ...
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Fonts corrupted

Fonts seems to be corrupted in Unity in my system after an update yesterday. It seems certain characters are refusing to display (please see attached screenshot), or gets displayed in same color as ...
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Ubuntu resolution with Ultrabook

I installed 12.10 to Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A. Now i face with resolution problem. Default resolution is 1920x1080, and Ubuntu display can normally detect it. But everything is too small with this ...
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Unity cropping external monitor: how do I fix it? [duplicate]

I I have a dual-screen setup with my laptop (1366x768) and an external monitor connected through HDMI (primary 1920x1080). I don't know if this is cause by different aspect ratios (16:10 on laptop, ...
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How should I handle multiple monitors when I regularly connect and disconnect different monitors and projectors

I'm moving from a macbook pro (with MacOSX) to a lenovo T430 running ubuntu 12.10. I use the laptop for work, and work from home regularly. I have an external 30" monitor at home, an external 23" ...
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Pixelation after restarting Unity [closed]

I usually keep my pc on for long periods of time and have found that after a long time compiz can hog a lot of memory, so I restart compiz/unity by: Alt + F2 and typing: unity --replace but after I ...
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Starting Unity manually causes screen to not be drawn correctly

I've been messing around with window managers and I decided to see if I could boot into Ubuntu 12.04 in text mode and then start up Unity manually. The way I ended up doing this was changing quiet ...
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Is it possible to have my desktop loaded before login?

I am connecting to the system with Putty (this is Windows SSH client) then running some service in interactive personal mode. For example this is a script to run freeswitch: dims@nebulla:~$ cat ...
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Dual monitor not working completely in 12.10 after upgrade

At 12.04, dual monitors worked perfectly. After upgrading to 12.10, the primary monitor works, the second monitor only partly works. I am sure there is some difference between the releases that I ...
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How to clone displays with my laptop and an external HD Monitor

I have been trying to connect my laptop to an external monitor (different resolutions). My idea was to setup the external monitor as a clone of the laptop screen. In Ubuntu Quantal's display settings ...
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Dell E6500 in docking station with external display

I have Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed on a Dell E6500 laptop, most of the time in docking station, with external Dell 21" display. When installing additional drivers for the nVidia graphics card the ...
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Some of my favorite resolutions have disappeared from the “Display” tool in Unity

I tried to clean my PC and re-connect every cable again and in restarting it I noticed that the resolution had changed. I then tried to return to my favorite resolution (9:16) again and I found that ...
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After updating, Unity disappeared! Help! [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears There were updates, so I did an update, rebooted, and come to find my unity is completely gone. I can still open ...
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What is going on with my display?

Sometimes I will have a Unity issue where icons and text is blurred into lines. The only way to fix it is to restart the computer, and it seems to happen at random. It's hard to explain, so I included ...
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With dual monitor setup, LXDE displays both screens, but after Unity and Gnome start-up then the main screen goes into power saving mode

With dual monitor setup, LXDE displays both screens, but Unity and Gnome start-up then the main screen goes into power saving mode. I am running AMD Radeon drivers, latest from the vendor, not ...
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Unity launcher not displayed when mirror displays selected [closed]

I have my laptop plugged into the TV running at resolution 1024x768. When I open the display settings and select Mirror Displays the launcher bar disappears. If I clear the setting the launcher ...
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Unity 11.10 and VGA output to flat screen TV

When I connect a VGA cable from my HP laptop to my SONY 40" flat screen, I get a weird looking desktop: it tends to have everything on the right but no dash, icons etc. I enabled CCSM and checked ...
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Displaying output of arbitrary command on Unity panel

In my current setup running Ubuntu Natty and GNOME 2, I use the COMPA applet to display information on my top GNOME panel that I wish to always be visible on my desktop. I really like this ability to ...
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dual display breaks unity

I find that most of the time, when I plug in my Dell 19" monitor with an HDMI lead, unity can't decide on the configuration; it will switch between different resolutions, and setups every 2-30 ...
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Can't enable 3rd monitor after installing ATI proprietary drivers

So, after hearing how Ubuntu 11.10 was supposed to have improved support for multiple monitors, I had to re-install again and give it a try. I always found Ubuntu gets more done faster related to ...
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Windows sometimes does not open fully

I am using natty unity. I am facing 1 intermittent problem. Sometimes, my application windows does not open completely. For example, please refer following image. You may observe that my google ...
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VNC viewer can't receive the server changes [closed]

I'm using ubuntu 11.04 with unity, I enable the remote desktop. After connecting to my desktop in another host via vncviewer, I can see the screen of my desktop, but the vncviewer can't receive the ...
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How can I stop the panel from showing on an external projector/monitor?

In Ubuntu 10.10 (and possibly previous versions), when I connected my laptop to an external source (monitor/projector) and set it not to clone my desktop the display on the external source would not ...
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Upper half of laptop screen becomes black when I plug in an external LCD

My laptop has Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 integrated graphic controller and the screen size is 1280x800. When I plug another LCD (ThinkVision 22") the upper half of the laptop screen becomes black. I ...
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Multiple monitors, different resolutions break maximize button [closed]

After installing 11.04 I noticed that the maximize button is broken with multiple monitors at a different resolution. When clicking on maximize on the screen with the lowest resolution, the titlebar ...