Questions about multiple monitors (Including projectors), how to set them up, troubleshooting the configuration, etc.
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Did my updates in 12.10 break my display driver (nvidia) [duplicate]
I was so stoked, it's been my best linux experience to date. Everything was running grandly, til I let the updates do there thing, post reboot only one display worked which was labeled as laptop and ...
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Getting DVI to work through Lenovo USB Port Replicator in 12.10: Instability and getting it to use xorg.conf file
Setup:
Computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 using the USB Port Replicator running LiveCD for Ubuntu 12.10.
Computer has USB attachment to port replicator. Port replicator has DVI to HDMI convertor ...
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dual screen resolotion not working
I have a wide 1920*1080 screen and 1680*1050 screen.
by them self, they work properly.
but with dual screen only the wide screen work's properly and the other cut's the edges.
it seems no ...
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Touchscreen calibration with dual monitors (NVidia and xinput)
I've got a NVidia GTX260 card with one regular screen above one touchscreen using the eGalax driver.
I've tried to configure the touchscreen using xinput but I can't get it right. With the normal ...
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Run Unity on external monitor with Bumblebee
I realise there are lots of other questions about this, but they are all about the basic setup. I have gotten most of the way there but I have a very specific question: I want to run full Unity on the ...
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twitch.tv video full screen opens on different monitor?
I have a Nvidia eVGA GeForce GTX 680 and I am running three monitors off of it. Whenever I watch the live streams on twitch.tv and I want to watch in full screen via the little button on the bottom of ...
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How to connect Xdmx and android Xserver?
I run:
$ Xdmx :1 -display 192.168.1.137:0
The output:
(II) dmx: Generation: 1
(II) dmx: DMX version: 1.2.20070424 (DMX Project)
(II) dmx: DMX Build OS: Linux ...
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How to provide second monitors resolution to application?
I have a dual monitor setup, with the basic TwinView settings from my Nvidia-card (550 Ti). One monitor is my primary display (1600x900) and the other is my TV (1920*1080).
I have arranged XBMC to ...
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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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How do I properly configure my screen edges to be non-sticky? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable mouse magnet on middle edge with multi monitors?
I find the sticky edges feature to be quite annoying. I'm using dual monitors and turned sticky edges ...
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opening a program in full screen across 3 monitors
I am running ubuntu 12.10, with an ati card, and ati's binary catalyst driver, all 3 displays are the exact same model/make, running 3 desktops is not an issue, however for some programs I want them ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 second monitor not detected at all
I have a desktop system in which I just spent a small fortune replacing the motherboard and graphics card because I thought they were broken, and after doing so, I still have the same problem. The ...
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Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800
I have the ubiquitous and difficult display problems. I have a very limited understanding of everything regarding graphic display mechanics, and Gnome specific terms, so please let me know if you ...
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Desktop icons out of place when on multiple monitors?
I have two monitors set up, one is my laptop monitor and the other is an external display. The external display is on the right side of my laptop and levitated with a stand, so I set the display ...
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How to stop the fluent change / switch between work spaces?
I successfully got my laptop hooked up to my 22 inch monitor with the help of you in How do I setup dual monitors in XFCE?. It is pretty cool working on Xubuntu on a big monitor (in 1680 x 1050 px). ...
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Dual Monitor problem
When I first installed 12.04 both monitors worked fine. I updated additional drivers and now I get this message.
required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(3840, 1080), ...
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Monitor setup and desktop background lost on restart
I have a Lenovo Z570 dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 very happily. I love it, and I'm fairly sure I want to switch permenantly. The laptop has a 1366x768px built in screen, and is connected ...
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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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New to Ubuntu using 12.10 having troube getting a second display to work
I am new to ubuntu so I don't know any information to provide to help me, so let me kno what you need.
When I am trying to connect to external display on my laptop, mirroring the display is hit or ...
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Dual monitor with ATI
I'm running 12.04 dual booted on a Dell Inspiron i17R with an ATI 5400. I'm trying to get an external monitor (Dell UltraSharp U2412M) to act as a second display. When I connect it to my computer, it ...
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Display Link adapter
I have a DisplayLink USB-to-VGA adapter (17e9:0198 Newnham Research) I would like to add to my system (eventually two). I am running Linux 3.5.0-19-generic #30~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 14 21:43:28 ...
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How do I disable dual screen after connect HDMI cable?
I plugged the HDMI connector and turned on the computer, but when the log in screen appears the laptop screen appears split in 2, one top and one bottom. The external monitor connected via HDMI works ...
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HDMI only works when running off battery
I've installed Ubuntu 12.10 and when I plug it into HDMI I get visual but not audio (I tried troubleshooting this and ended up hurting myself more than I helped and had to reload the OS). That's fine ...
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extended display works in unity but not in xubuntu (xfce)
When I am in unity desktop, I can go to system settings -> display and it can correctly identify my monitors and it also has an option for "mirror" which I can uncheck and my desktop is extended (with ...
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2nd monitor not working - Ubuntu 12.04
So I've seen a lot of these questions and tried a dozen different solutions with no luck. This is the latest one in case it matters ...
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3 monitors and 2 video cards (intel and ati)
I've moved to ubuntu from windows 7. In W7 I had 3 monitors on 2 graphic cards. 2 monitors work from ati card and 1 from intel card. In ubuntu I can't make it to work like before. Now works only 2 ...
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Dual SLI GPU: Desktop on one card, kiosk on other?
I have a dual GPU system with (obviously) quad output.
What I want to have is one card manage my desktop, and the other to run a thin kiosk / presentation through.
How do I go about activating the ...
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No option for changing launcher placement in Settings -> Display
Few days ago I encountered a problem with dual-monitor configuration in Ubuntu - unwanted launcher bar on second monitor. The problem was reported here several times before. The solution for that is ...
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Nvidia GTX 590, 3 Monitors 12.10 64bit
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit and have Nvidia GTX 590 Connected to 3 monitors, I cannot for the life of me get all 3 working, I can get 2 running in dual but not 3rd.
Spent about 1 week still no ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 & Nvidia 304 Causes Two Gnome-Panel
I just upgraded from Nvidia-curent to the 304 experimental so that I could install Steam. The 304 package is working just as well as the current driver on my setup except that when I log in I get two ...
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Asus N55SF dual monitor setup
I am a new user of ubuntu.
I wanted to plug my 24 inch Samsung monitor to my laptop with HDMI.
My laptop has an Nvidia GT 555M and an i7 sandy bridge. so i have 2 graphic cards.
But when i go to ...
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How do I get my panasonic viera TV to work as second monitor in 12.04?
When I connect my panasonic viera P50GT50 with a DVI 2 HDMI cable, I get no response on the viera.
I am using Unity Desktop. when I open the displays panel, I see that the second monitor is ...
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Fresh install of 12.10 and 4 x monitors
I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.10 running on a new Dell Precision T7600 workstation. I four Dell 30" monitors connected to a single Nvidia NVS 450 using display port cables. I was able to ...
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Ubuntu won't do 1920x1080
Both my monitors (one over DVI other over HDMI) have a native resolution of 1920x1080 (16:9) but the only two options for resolution in the "Display" section of system settings are 800x600 (4:3) and ...
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triple screen setup with 2 nvidia graficcards fails - Lightdm doesn't feel responsible for the third screen
I have 2 videocards a quadro FX 380 and a Geforce 580. I want to connect 2 1920x1200 and a 2560x2540 screen to it. I use precise and the xswat PPA with newest nvidia proprietary drivers.
The built-in ...
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AMD Video Card not allowing other resolutions than default with AMD 12.11 driver
![enter image description here][1]I've installed Ubuntu on my home system, trying to take the step to using it full time instead of Windows!
My problem is that I can't seem to get my AMD video card ...
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How to optimise Unity for dual monitor with overlap
I'm using a touchscreen and external monitor to occasionally sketch some drawings on the touchscreen. If I need the touch screen I switch it on with a simple xrandr command.
xrandr including rotation, ...
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Can't get my dual monitor settings to “stick”
I'm running Kubuntu 12.10. I have a nVidia GT-430 video card with a large 27" 2560x1550 monitor hooked up with dual-link DVI and a smaller 21" 1920x1080 monitor hooked up with HDMI. Before I log on, ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Problems with secondary monitor on left.
I've got a monitor connected using Display Port to my laptop.
When I switch secondary monitor to be on left (by default it's on right) and I turn off the monitor, all apps from primary monitor ...
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Synaptics touchpad moves a few dots when tapping
Normal mouse movement is fine but when I try to tap the touchpad the pointer often moves away a few dots. Which is kind of annoying, because sometimes the cursor ends up where its not supposed to be. ...
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Increase 2nd Monitor resolution and rotation
I'm trying to use a large monitor as a second screen for my laptop Ubuntu 12.04. But when I try and connect it to my laptop, it comes up on it's side, a 90° turn. When I go to the settings, it gives ...
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How do I adapt sysusbvga to 12.10?
I've just purchased a J5create JUA310 display adapter.
How can I use sysusbvga or equivalent to recognize the virtual monitor, given that xorg.conf seems to be depreciated?
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Is there a way to configure Ubuntu 12.10 to work with dual monitors?
Is having dual monitor support with Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal version 12.10 possible? Immediately after installing Ubuntu the dual monitors worked. Then suddenly there was a change to the system that I ...
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After removing second display: Single display setup not remembered
I recently removed one display from a dual head display setup.
Everything works fine, but after I wake up from standby the picture seems to be shifted to the left (were my second display was) about ...
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Desktop files moved to secondary monitor
when I hook up a secondary monitor (to give a presentation or something) all my desktop files are placed on the secondary monitor. I want them to remain on my laptop desktop, which is emptied when I ...
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how to use both ati graphics cards in my xubuntu 12.10 64bit system?
I have a system with this graphics card and this motherboard with an integrated second graphics card. What i want to have (if possible) is using the first graphics card for heavy 3d apps and the ...
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Ubuntu does not keep settings for dual-monitor setup, how can I correct this?
First I have a Windows 8 PC with two monitors attached:
A 24" primary monitor at 1920 x 1200, and
A second 19" monitor at 1280 x 1024.
Windows boots using the smaller 19" monitor before ...
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Second monitor not detected
I switched from 12.04 to 12.10 yesterday evening (fresh install). Now I'm struggling with my second monitor, which I can't configure.
In 12.04, after installing the system, I got a notice telling me ...
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Dual Monitor Works with HDMI but not AVG help
:~$ uname -a
Linux Ninjex 3.2.0-35-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 18:04:39 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
When hooking the laptop to my HDTV via HDMI cord, all goes well and looks ...
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Ubuntu shutting down unexpectedly
I experienced some issues with my acer travelmate 5730 shutting down when I tried to install ubuntu 12.04... However I managed to install it and after a few updates the shutting down stopped...
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