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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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black screen at lock screen

Today i install 3 screens on my Ubuntu-Desktop with Sapphire HD7550 and generic drivers was ubuntu detect after install and all work great !! (after 1 year with 2 screens... ) But, when screens lock ...
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Gnome Classic - automatically add panel when external monitor is connected

Similar to: With Xmonad / GNOME, switch gnome-panel between monitors While at my desk, I use two external monitors with laptop lid shut. When mobile, I use my laptop display of course. I like to ...
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Laptop with AMD GPU, howto set a definitive brightness

The hardware: Sony SVE171A11M Intel Core i3 AMD Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series 1600x900 screen The problem I start the system, I set the screen brightness to 100%. When I restart, the brightness ...
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Desktop switcher, on one monitor only?

I have two screens, one I'd like one to be left alone when I switch desktops. I have my IDE open on a vertical monitor and then my main monitor I have email, browser etc. all open in their open ...
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Screen Resolution and ATI HD6850 Drivers Ubuntu 12.10

I am running dual monitors with an Sapphire HD6850 graphics card. My main monitor a 22" flat screen plugged in with a DVI port gets full 1680 x 1080 resolution. My second monitor is stuck at 1024 x ...
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Slow scrollin since upgrade to 12.10

Since I have upgraded (no clean install) from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10, particular graphical aspects are slow: Scrolling is really slow: for example in a terminal window, gedit or a browser Compiz ...
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HDMI not working on GMA500

I have a Dell Mini 1010 (wich has a GMA500/Poulsbo video card) with Ubuntu 12.04, everything works fine except the HDMI output. When I plug in a HDMI cable just nothing happens. When I look at the ...
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Missing nvidia-settings application

To make a long story short, I seem to have lost my nvidia-settings application. So, when I select Settings from the drop down, and then Display, I don't see the configuration screen that I normally ...
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DisplayLink Display nearly working on 10.10

Here's what they look like at the moment. Here are 2 images: http://i.imgur.com/HphO5.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/HphO5.jpg. I can't seem to find anyone else with this screen, and I've just installed ...
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Xorg server configuration fail - no screens detected

I have a serious problem with Xorg server on ubuntu 12.04 (with nvidia 420M GT card). At home I am using an external monitor connected to my laptop's HDMI port - the external display is used as ...
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changed a DVI cable, Ubuntu now can't recognize monitor

I upgraded my VGA-with-converters cable to a straight DVI-D cable yesterday, and now Ubuntu 12.04 can't find the monitor I upgraded the cable for. I've tried switching the cables around on the video ...
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Why is my Workspace switcher view skewed

I have been using Workspace switcher in Ubuntu just fine but recently have encountered this problem. The windows in the switcher don't fill the screen. I must have pressed some combination of buttons ...
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How can i seperately change the workspace on my two screens?

I have two different screens, one FullHD and one HDready and i often have openend many windows. To manage these, the Ubuntu workspaces do a good job, but it would be excellent if it could be changed ...
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New window, when starting maximized, goes to secondary monitor

I've been searching around but only found solutions for compiz and nvidia. i am using 12.04 with the default ATI drivers, the ones from ati website crashes for me on dual monitor setup. i have to ...
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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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How to install a NVIDIA driver for 11.10 [duplicate]

I have a Thinkpad T61p with Quadro FX570M. I just installed the Ubuntu 11.10. I have tried to download the driver LINUX DISPLAY DRIVER - X86 version 295.20 from NVIDIA, but I do not manage to install ...
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Screen resolution and multiple monitors Kubuntu 11.10 Asus U46E BAL7

I have just installed Kubuntu on ASUS U46E BAL7. The installation went fine and I am able to use the desktop. But it seems to recognize only one monitor at a time, either the laptop or the secondary ...
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ATI card dual monitor not working [closed]

EDIT: the setup which it stays at is the last one, Multi-display desktop with display(s) 2. This is the problem: with an ATI videocard, I set up dual monitor with the driver's own program. However, ...
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How to change screen output to HDMI, when laptop screen is broken?

My laptop (Samsung N510) screen is broken and I've recently tried to install ubuntu 11.10. I'm planning to use the laptop with HDMI connected to my TV. While installing from a USB stick, both laptop ...
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Can I make one monitor act like two, split in half

Context: Ubuntu 11.10, Unity Let's say I have a screen at resolution 1000x500. What I'd like to do is split the screen down the middle so [Unity or X or ?] acts as if there are two displays (each of ...
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Need to reconfigure absolute position of dual monitors after reboot, how do I fix that?

I have two monitors, one is DELL P2411H 24” and the other is BenQ FP91G+ 19". All the times when I restart the PC I have to reconfigure the absolute position. How can I fix that?
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Adding a virtual screen to xorg.conf 11.04 (third display over vnc)

I currently have an nvidia gtx470 with 2 x 22" 1920x1080 displays on twinview. Since I have a spare laptop (old but works) and screen (22" 1680x1050). A vnc server would be set up (viewonly) to the ...
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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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How to fix boundary for each of my monitors? [closed]

This is related to Why are notifications appearing in the invisible black zone above my monitor ?. Is there a way I can fix the boundary of my monitors (the way it is in Windows), ie such that ...
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How can I move all windows to one screen with a single command?

When undocking my laptop from twinview external monitors back to a single screen I would like to have a single command to move all windows onto my primary screen. Although nvidia does some of the ...