Questions related to hardware displays, either internal (as in a laptop) or external (as in most desktop monitors, or projectors)
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How to handle windows on multiple screens?
I've multiple screens i.e. one computer monitor and one TV. It would be preferable if, when the TV is turned off, nothing is sent to the TV but as it happens, I can have the TV turned off and ...
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Part of my external screen stays blank when connected to laptop (Kubuntu 13.04)
I have installed Kubuntu 13.04 on my XPS13: when I plug in an external screen with resolution 1920x1200 on my laptop (which is 1920x1080) via the mini display port (DVI cable), I get a mirror of my ...
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my random mirror display key
I use my laptop to watch videos, I plug in hdmi and use my tv.
When I am dual-monitoring I can't choose mirror because the only resolution my tv/laptop share is 640x780, it is so small that I can't ...
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How to manually set a special resolution?
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit for the past short time. After a screen upgrade, I can't use/set the right resolution.
My old display setting was three 17" of 1280x1024 behind a Matrox TripleHead2GO ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 HDMI resolution and display options incorrect
I have installed ubuntu 13.04 and the HDMI resolution is incorrect and options limited to a max of 1280x720. The VGA is not perfect as it is cutting off the top taskbar slightly, it also shows a ...
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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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Which package handles changes to connected displays?
I've noticed a couple of questions here citing unhappiness with the way window positions are handled when an display is connected or disconnected.
Ubuntu 12.10 - Problems with secondary monitor on ...
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Secondary Monitor Goes off upon logging in
I am using dell xps 14z laptop with Ubuntu 12.04, when booting up it detects the secondary monitor [Viewsonic] but upon entering the username/password , the secondary monitor goes blank . when I open ...
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Turn off laptop display and have monitor
My laptop display has stopped working and is unfixable!
Anyway, I got a full HD monitor and plugged that into the HDMI port of the laptop. I have changed the power settings so that I can close the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Monitor & Resolution Issues on Older Nvidia Card
When I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 on a computer with an older Nvidia Quadro FX 500 128mb agp card, I cannot get the display to work.
There are a number of things that happen:
On some fresh ...
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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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1080p on TV not working
I am trying to connect my laptop (Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook) to my TV (Toshiba WLT66/67 Series) and get it to output to the TV at 1080i (so basically 1920x1080) through HDMI
The issue I have is that ...
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Problems when installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I recently wanted to try out Ubuntu so I decided to get the Windows installer for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. After it finished installing, it asked me to restart my computer. After it restarted it booted up ...
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Is this a dual monitor reset bug?
My two displays are:
Intel GMA x4500 Laptop (1280x800 native resolution of the built-in display)
External display (1920x1080)
A few minutes after I login to my dual monitor setup, it gets reset to ...
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Ubuntu not working with HDMI, Windows 7 does work - Intel HD 4000 display adapter
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on an external hard drive and it is booting just fine. I have a Dell Latitude E6230 with an Intenl HD Graphics 4000 video display adapter.
For some reason, when this ...
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USB display adapter with linux/ubuntu drivers?
I want to use my external monitor's resolution fully (2560x1440) with a USB display adapter for my laptop. I have one with Windows drivers, are there any adapter with linux / Ubuntu drivers that can ...
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Maximum brightness is not maximum brightness
On my dual boot laptop I noticed that maximum brightness in Ubuntu and Windows 8 is totally different. In Windows 8 the screen is much much brighter at maximum level than it is at Ubuntu maximum ...
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Power off the monitor on install Ubuntu 13.04
When i try to install Ubuntu 13.04 , I have problem to display .
In first i see the page same as blank after about 5 sec monitor power off and get to standby mode but the dvd-rom is worked hard and ...
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Using the Onboard VGA output with a PCIe video card. Both nVidia
I have 2 video cards, one On board, a nVidia 6150SE nForce 430 and a PCIe nVidia GeForce GT 220 1GB DDR2 RAM
I have already configured the PCIe card to use the dual monitor feature, using the VGA and ...
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Switch off display as minimum display brightness
How can I switch off the display when I reach the lowest brightness level with the brightness hotkeys?
I filed a bug about switching off the display on Launchpad long ago, but I hope there is a ...
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Troubleshooting poor performance with ATI HD 5800 GPU
I am attempting again to solve problems between ATI Radeon HD 5800 series (5830) GPU and Ubuntu. Three months ago I posted:
Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800
I ...
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External display is not working under Ubuntu with a Thinkpad W530
I have a new Thinkpad W530. It has a K2000M graphics card (with Optimus) and a Intel Chipset graphic. I can't connect an external display.
Here is what I tried with more or less success.
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Display too dark on an Acer emachines E725
I just did a wubi install of Ubuntu 11.10 ony my acer emachines E725. After I reboot, the display is too dark that I can only see the white backgrounds and my mouse (when it is in the middle of the ...
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What is the function of the “Sticky edges” on/off setting in displays?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). If I open System Settings >> Displays there is a new (?) on/off button for a setting named Sticky edges.
Can someone tell me what this setting ...
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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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After upgrading to 13.04, plugging in external display to my laptop causes the displays to freeze randomly
I had installed 12.10 on my lenovo ideapad z560 laptop at work last week. I use it together with an external monitor and everything was working fine and then today I upgraded the distribution to ...
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“drm:[drm_crtc_helper_set_config] *ERROR* failed to set mode on [CRTC6]” during install
I have a desktop PC which I built a while back. It has an Athlon XP 2500+, 2.5GB RAM, and an Nvidia (PNY Verto) Geforce 6200. I removed the CD drive to add another hard drive so I install from a USB ...
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How to reset monitor display settings?
On Ubuntu 12.04 laptop with Gnome desktop, I tried to set an additional display through Catalyst (administrative) and slowly ended up making making a mess out of the whole thing. I tried several ...
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Can not change display resolution on a Sony VGN-FZ21M
My Sony Notebook VGN-FZ21M does have a NVIDIA grafic card with a VESA G86 Board - e415h01. My Problem is, that i can not change the display resolution from 1024*768 (4:3) to 1980*1280.
I tried to in ...
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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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How to change 32-bit operating system into 64-bit operating system without changing the operating system [duplicate]
I have recently installed 32-bit Ubuntu 11.04 but actually my OS-PLATFORM is AMD 64-bit architecture.So with this i have Display problem. So tell me a better way to solve this, But i am not intrusted ...
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Catalyst control center settings not loading on startup
I set Ubuntu to use the proprietary AMD fglrx drivers included in the software sources menu. After first rebooting, I noticed that the image on my monitor was not scaled to fill my monitor completely, ...
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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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Not possible to set monitor/display configuration permanent
I have got stucked in how to permanent set my monitor/display resolution
Ubuntu does NOT detect my monitor without always use default.
my_user@my_computer:~$ sudo xrandr --newmode "1680x1050" ...
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Correct Display configuration. Errors while trying to arrange displays
I am trying to set up my tv with my laptop trough a VGA cable. The display application in Ubuntu throws a lot of errors to me and I have given up in trying to do it myself.
I try to apply the 1920 ...
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How can I modify the small icon and title bar fonts in Unity?
As you can see in the screenshot, the fonts for the title bar (any window) and for the icons within the file browser (as well as in the navigation pane to the left) are very very small, I have tried ...
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How do I increase screen resolution in ubuntu 12.04? I want 1366x768
I get the following output when I run xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x ...
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Nvidia Geforce GT630 resolution problem
I installed the drivers but the maximum resolution I can get is 1360x768. Can I get to 1920x1080? On Windows it worked fine.
Edit: I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
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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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Dell 3721 display problem Ubuntu 13.04
After I upgrade from ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 I can't change the brightness of the display, it remain in the darkest possible mode. I have a Dell 3721 laptop. Any advice?
@Dell:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
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Ubuntu 12.04 not booting to a display manager or login manager
When I boot up my computer with Ubuntu install on it, it's keeps booting and booting forever. It loads the boot screen but it doesn't boot up.
The only way to log in is to press Ctrl+Alt+F2, then ...
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Monitor resolution messed up, monitor is unknown
Is there anyway to reset my monitor? My moitor is using the xorg.conf file. I use 10.04, without any Graphics Card. My monitor is an Acer X193W, with a native resolution of 1440x900.
This is my ...
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two display-related issues with U13.04
having recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04, the screen is shifted upwards thereby making the top menu bar not visible, and a black strip on the bottom. It's as though 13.04 changed the vertical ...
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x11vnc fails to open X DISPLAY
I work on a Kubuntu with x11vnc after a SSH connexion has been opened (no hdmi screen here). I worked 4 hours, installing applications, with 3 or 4 vnc shutdown. Cold reboot allows to restart with ...
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Dual monitor setup.Workspace switcher allignment problem
I have a dual monitor setup.The two monitors have different sizes and resolutions.When I use the workspace switcher option,I see the screens as shown in the screenshot.
Why cant I see all the ...
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How do I list connected displays using the command line?
Is there a command that will list displays connected to the computer?
Specifically, I'm looking to find out how my external monitor is being detected by the system when connected by HDMI cable and ...
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Dual display with 13.04 - how?
I have an ATI display adaptor with DVI & VGA. It has 1280x1024 on DVI and 1440x990 on VGA. With Windows I can run the OS on the DVI display and anything I want on the 1280 by default or drag it ...
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Xfce power manager does not follow GUI setting not to shut down the display
I want my laptop not to turn off monitor when on AC power under any circumstance.
And yet it becomes dark after a while - 10 minutes I guess.
I think the Xfce GUI settings involved are these here:
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While using 3 monitors, the third one just displays a TTY
I'm using the VGA and the DVI outputs of my ATI RV516 XT Radeon X1600 SE to connect two monitors, which works (finally). Now I have a third monitor and I´ve heard, that you can use your onboard VGA ...
