Questions related to hardware displays, either internal (as in a laptop) or external (as in most desktop monitors, or projectors)
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Resetting user display settings in 12.10
I have a macbook air with intel graphics, yesterday I disabled the laptop screen while I used an external screen and today whenever I plug it in the laptop screen goes off and the external monitor ...
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Desktop Never Loads ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
So I just put Ubuntu 12.10 on an older desktop of mine. It's a dell dimension 8300 with:
an Nvidia 5300 Graphics card
Intel Processor
3GB ram
SATA HD
At this point, I can log in and from there on it ...
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Ubuntu not detecting display right [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dell Studio 15, Turnoff after suspend due to overheat, and does not turnon the fan as well
Ubuntu shows my desktop background but the resolution is all messed up and I ...
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display keeps on flickring countineously
my desktop config. as below
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (2.80 ghz)
Northwood 0.13um Technology
RAM: 1.00 GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 114MHz (3-3-3-9)
Graphics: Philips 192EL (1024x768@70Hz)
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Why the xinput calculation is not correct as theory mentioned to be?
For resolution 1024x768
I tried: xinput set-prop "Elo TouchSystems, Inc. Elo TouchSystems 2700 IntelliTouch(r) USB Touchmonitor Interface" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 ...
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Xorg and Xserver not starting up after hibernate
I originally wrote this question on http://unix.stackexchange.com but didn't really get any response and that forum isn't as busy as this one so hoping to get better luck here.
I'm currently running ...
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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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Thinkpad Edge E525 Laptop: Black Screen
I'm having trouble with the internal display of my Thinkpad Edge E525 Laptop:
The display stays black and now I'm trying to find out whether it's defective or did I somehow deactivate it?
The screen ...
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Why are my display settings not persistent?
Every time I reboot my laptop, even if I haven't unplugged the external monitor, it sets the external monitor back to overlapping with the laptop screen. I want them to stay 'side by side'.
Running ...
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ubuntu 12.10 gnome display issue
I've set up a personal media server on a ubuntu-powered pc. Nothing was wrong with it, but since my dad tried to install displaylink drivers. Now the display is really weird (image atached 1)! and it ...
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How to figure out if a window is actually displayed on the screen using shell script?
I'm trying to write a shell script that recognizes if Thunderbird window is displayed and if so it disposes it to the messages tray.
I'd like to use it in this answer of "How to keep Thunderbird and ...
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Cannot permanently prevent power saving blank screen on Compaq Presario C700 with Ubuntu 12.10
I have a Compaq Presario C700 which has a GRUB multi-boot for Ubuntu 12.10 (32 bit), Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows Vista. This machine is always run by mains electricity rather than by battery as I have ...
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Why is my display getting garbled?
I recently installed the latest Ubuntu version 12.10 on my USB stick and booted my laptop with it. The OS runs just fine and as expected but there are a few niggles though! Sometimes when I start a ...
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How to clear jupiter's notification?
I used an external display some time before. After that there is a notification of 'New Resolution' everytime the startup of my xfce.
Look like this:
This is really annoying, so I want to know how ...
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running xthrust is not possible for me
I want to run the executable xthrust but it requires a particular type of visual that is not available. The error it reports is "Not 8 bits per pixel PseudoColor."
xdpyinfo lists the visuals but none ...
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Display flickering when minimizing/maximizing
I am having some weird display flickering when using window controls like maximizing/minimizing,scrolling down... I have tried changing refresh rate and screen resolution but that didnt help. I ...
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when save file show all files as default
how does one, when saving any file, display all files as default, no matter what type of file extension one saves in?
example: scan a pic, click on "save image" or "save" or "save as"; name file; ...
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Cant see edges of my screen. How do I fix it?
I have a Hisense 42" LCD TV (1080p) connected via HDMI to my ASUS K53E laptop and when I switch it to 1080p (second screen only) I cant see the edges of my screen, and it says my TV is a Hitachi 52" ...
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How to investigate display lockup after Alt-Tab switching?
Running Kubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude E6500 running the free NVIDIA driver for my display. If I hit alt-tab to switch between windows too fast the display locks up and the only way I can unlock it ...
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Display problems with Google Chrome on Ubuntu
I'm experiencing problems with quite some webpages while using Google Chrome (stable build: 23.0.1271.97). Many websites like facebook, youtube, arstechnica not rendering as they should, also this ...
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Is Ubuntu 12.10 optimized for retina displays?
There was a discussion in summer that Ubuntu does not support retina displays - everything on the screen is too small. Even adjusting DPI does not help, since such an adjusting scales only fonts, bit ...
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12.04 Ubuntu: configuring laptop to hook up to tv using hdmi cable?
I'm trying to use an hdmi cable to connect my HP dv5 notebook to a 32" Sony Bravia tv in order to watch Hulu stuff on a bigger screen. However, Google has been thoroughly unhelpful thus far!
When I ...
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Screen randomly becomes black with cursor in Ubuntu 12.10
Sometimes when I am using Ubuntu 12.10 the screen will randomly become black with a cursor. The cursor represents whatever is below, such as a blinking text cursor if I am hovering over gedit, or a ...
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How to tell which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system?
How do I know which graphics card is being used in a hybrid system?
From lspci:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] ...
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list existing X display names?
How do I get a list of current X display names?
Apart from being a useful thing to know, I want this so that (hopefully!) I can use xcalib -invert -alter as suggested in this question to inver the ...
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Second display is rotated
I've just updated to Ubuntu 12.10 last night. When I was at the office, I connected my laptop with a projector. Although it can detect the projector, it incorrectly set the projector portrait. Also, ...
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Widi (Wireless Display) set up on Ubuntu 12.10
I recently purchased a Sony Vaio S Series Ultrabook that comes with Wireless Display. The steps to set this up on Windows 8 seem to be well documented but I haven't come across how to set this up on ...
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What does this fix for non-responsive mouse and keyboard do?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and found that after about 20 minutes of work that my mouse and keyboard became very unresponsive. So I found the following fix (logging in as root - careful!!!):
sudo -i
To ...
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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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Unity Greeter login screen cuts off login options
I have a pretty newly installed Ubuntu 12.04, using Unity. My external monitor is 1920x1080 max resolution. In the Unity desktop itself everything looks great. I have an NVidia graphics card.
When I ...
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ATI 9550 shows up as laptop in displays after update to 12.04, how do I fix this?
My guess is this is on here somewhere but I have searched and even tried looking at bunch of other similar video problems.
My ATI 9550 shows up as laptop in displays after update to Ubuntu 12.04, ...
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xubutnu Nvidia Settings not remembered
I have an Nvidia card and I'm using NVIDIA Driver Version: 304.51 and the NVIDIA X Server Settings GUI.
Everything works fine but when I reboot and login again both my two screens are set to +0 +0 so ...
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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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Display problem when adjusting brightness in ubuntu 12.04
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell 1554 laptop.
I was adjusting my screen brightness when this happened :
this has become a recurring problem which is really annoying.
I also want to ...
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Setting up multiple monitors KDE 12.04
I have 1 1920x1080 display that I am using as a primary display, with a 1600x900 display off to my side. I have tried to set up the smaller display to be positioned to the right of the larger display, ...
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How to remove highlight color on list menu
Help, anyone knows how to get rid of this highlight from menu?
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How to take screenshot of an X11 based GUI from a text terminal (such as tty1)?
I tried using DISPLAY=:0 import -window root "$HOME/Pictures/screenshot.png" (import is part of the ImageMagick suite), but that just displays a black screen.
I want to do this as I wanted to ...
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Best triple head display setup
I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a darn good triple head display setup. I've got a VisionTek 900530 Radeon HD 5450 512MB DDR3 PCI Express video card that has two DVI outputs and one Mini ...
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I cant keep my second monitor detected in 12.04
On my work machine the second monitor, connected to the DisplayPort (DP1), is flickering into and out of existence. I'm only running onboard graphics, i.e.:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell Mini 9: direct me to screen aspect ratio directions?
Can someone direct me to an existing discussion, if there is one, about how to install the right aspect ratio or screen resolution on my Dell Mini 9 now that I have Ubuntu 12.04? All the discussions I ...
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Ubuntu stops using Nvidia driver after kernel upgrade
Just updated and restarted, Ubuntu's doesn't display correctly. After restart, the desktop now looks like this. I've temporarily switched to the Nouveau driver.
The update history reveals the kernel ...
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Is it possible to have my desktop loaded before login?
I am connecting to the system with Putty (this is Windows SSH client) then running some service in interactive personal mode.
For example this is a script to run freeswitch:
dims@nebulla:~$ cat ...
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how do i check available displays
When you know what display you want apps to start by default you would do something like:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
But suppose miss daisy, which is a frisky windows user that is giving linux a ...
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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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How do I reset my display settings from the command line?
I'm running 12.10 on a dell e5400 laptop and I used xrandr to get the dual monitors working that I connect through a laptop dock. I used xrandr again to switch back to the laptop display when I ...
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Waking up from “do nothing” state when lid closed
My laptop HP Pavillion DV6 8 Gb ram will not wake when you open the lid, key strokes and mouse movement is not recorded. Any one have any ideas
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Cannot Open Display
I have an old desktop that I installed Ubuntu on, the installation went well.
When I rebooted my computer I get the following info on the screen:
change display mode to 1280x.... 60.00Hz
My ...
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Monitor blinks with certain programs
My computer is a HP dv6 with 8gb ram, 500gb hdd and a amd radeon hd 6480 graphics card and dual core cpu. Now here is my problem:
When I try to run some programs such as gucvie and xbmc, the screen ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - how to set the resolution to 1024x768 and correct rate? using command line when ever system starts
I have this following code where my VGA output is always showing out of range. How can i resolve it?
$ cvt 1024 768
$ xrandr --newmode shvga 74.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798
$ xrandr ...
