Questions tagged [display-resolution]
Questions for the display resolution of a display device, usually given as number of pixels in each dimension or by it's aspect ratio.
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Screen Resolution Problem with Ubuntu 14.04 and VirtualBox
Environment: Lenovo T530 running Windows 7. Have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a virtual machine using VM Virtual Box. Have installed all the updates from both Virtual Box and Ubuntu.
Problem: While in ...
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Higher screen resolution in VirtualBox?
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 into VirtualBox on Windows 7.
Unfortunately the only options showing for screen resolution are 640x480 and 800x600 and the monitor is showing as 'Unknown'.
How ...
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Is it possible to have different DPI configurations for two different screens?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.3 with NVidia drivers (319) for my Quadro K2100M graphic card, and when I switch my main 3200x1800 laptop screen to mode 1920x1080 (using nvidia-settings), the display goes ...
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cannot change screen size from 640x480 after 14.04 installation on VirtualBox OSX [duplicate]
After installing Ubuntu 14.04 guest on VirtualBox running on a Max OSX host, I am stuck with 640x480 screen resolution. Adding guest additions again doesn't help. Previous Ubuntu installations are ...
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How do I set a custom resolution?
I tried to use xrandr to set 1680x1050 as a new mode to VGA output, but it says:
sudo xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1680
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of ...
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Ubuntu 14.10 does not install in virtualbox
I'm currently running Windows 8.1 x64 (a problem in itself that I can't change sadly ;-P) with the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.18 r96516). I managed to get the server version up and running with ...
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Higher screen resolution for VirtualBox?
I have been trying this for a while but no luck. I installed ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386 twice. Also installed guest additions. However I always get maximum screen resolution as, 1024 x 768.
Do I need ...
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How can I get the monitor resolution using the command line?
I would like to find a wallpaper that best suits my resolution. How can I get the resolution just by writing commands in the command line?
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How do I change the screen resolution using Ubuntu command line?
I installed Ubuntu and the resolution of the desktop is so big that it only shows about 50% of the screen, but is shows up normal while using command line.
What should I type in the command line to ...
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How to safely change grub2 screen resolution?
grub2 isn't really fit in the best screen resolution that my laptop can support (1280 x 800).
How can I do this without using a third party application ?
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Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen
How can I adapt Ubuntu to a high resolution display?
I have a display with 3200x1600px on only 11'' and everything looks really tiny.
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Add Fake Display when No Monitor is Plugged In
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server that has no external monitor connected. I use NoMachine to remote control the machine. When I do so, the Unity/Gnome interface doesn't see any monitors connected, so I ...
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How to change the screen resolution when using RDesktop?
How to change the screen resolution?
I tried with this command:
rdesktop <server_ip>
But the screen does not appear large.
Thiago Rodrigues
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How can I find out the supported webcam resolutions?
I have a web camera on my T500 Thinkpad. I would like to know its supported resolutions. Is there a way to find it out by means of software (and without having to consult the documentation)?
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How do I increase console-mode resolution?
When my computer goes to console mode (booting up, shutting down or Ctrl + Alt + F1)), the text is super big. I can't take a screenshot of it, but it looks like a 640 x 480 resolution. My monitor ...
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How to add display resolution for an LCD in Ubuntu 12.04? xrandr problem
I am new to Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 and am stuck trying to set up the correct resolution for my LCD display.
The native resolution for the LCD is 1920x1080
here is the output from ...
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Wrong Login Screen Resolution
On the odd occasion, usually after incorrectly restarting my computer, my login screen resolution is not the default 1440x900, but I think 1600x900. Now, I have this monitor that's really bad at ...
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How to set the monitor to its native resolution which is not listed in the resolutions list?
After installing Ubuntu 10.04 with my Samsung SyncMaster B2030, native resolution (1600X900) is not found in the list of resolutions.
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How do I save my new resolution setting with xrandr?
I found somewhere in a forum the solution to a problem where the only resolutions available were 800x600 and 1024x768. I managed to get 1440x900, which works very well. Every time I reboot, this mode ...
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Resolution doesn't change when resizing Virtualbox window
I've installed Ubuntu 64bit on Virtualbox 4.2.16. Guest Additions were installed in Ubuntu as well.
However the display resolution of Ubuntu does not seem to change as the Virtualbox window is ...
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Virtualbox, How do I change guest (precise) resolution to 16:9 (1920x1080) instead of default 4:3?
There are many questions about resolution issues on askubuntu but no question/solution seems to solve my issue.
I've a 12.04/precise host system and installed Ubuntu 12.04/precise as guest system as ...
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Ubuntu appears very small at 1080p, text almost undreadable
I have a 15" Dell Studio XPS with a 1080p screen. Everything seems tiny with 1080p, in 720p everything is fine but just looks very low-res.
So I definitely want to get the full resolution the ...
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How do I run 'vbeinfo'?
The instructions in /etc/default/grub say to run vbeinfo,
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in ...
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Unable to set my screen resolution higher
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS on this system
Processor: Intel Core i5-7400
Mainboard: H110M-Gaming3-CF
The problem is the highest resolution it can go up to is 1024x768, which is terrible. ...
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GRUB2: Use maximum detected resolution?
How do I tell GRUB2 to set its resolution (and also the one passed to the kernel) to the maximum one it can detect at time of boot?
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Failed to get size of gamma for output default when trying to add new screen resolution
I'm trying to adjust resolution on my new MSI GT70 2OC. In settings, only one resolution is available: 1920x1080. This is fine, except that I need to decrease the resolution and make it more ...
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Fix scaling of java-based applications for a high DPI screen
There are some applications (mainly java based) that don't follow the global 2x scale I set in the screen-settings. So these apps are really tiny on my high DPI screen with 3200x1800px.
How can I get ...
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How can I reset my display settings through terminal?
I am using Ubuntu 15.10. I accidentally changed the size of the interface to maximum. Now my folders and windows are too large and don't fully fit the screen so I cannot revert the effect. Is there ...
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Remmina scale resolution when connect from Ubuntu to Windows 10
When I connect from my home Ubuntu to my office PC the resolution is too great and all the fonts and other screen items are so tiny so I cannot see anything.
This is due to my new monitor at home ...
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Adjust Firefox and Thunderbird to a High DPI touchscreen display (retina)
If you are using a high DPI Display with a resolution of 3200x1600 px you can adjust Unity with a System wide Menu and titlebar scaling But Firefox is not really ready for this: All pages and the ...
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Wayland how to set a custom resolution
Old title - "change resolution to 1280x1024 using xrandr gives: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)"
I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 and have a ...
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Ubuntu Hyper-V Guest Display Resolution Win 10 + 15.04
I've got a Hyper-V on a WINDOWS 10 Surface and I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 as a guest OS. I've successfully resized the Ubuntu screen in a Hyper-V with Windows 8 and 14.04 using the recommendations found ...
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How do I get a larger screen resolution in VirtualBox on Mac OS X?
I am running the new Mac Air 13" with OS X 10.8.2. I then downloaded the latest VirtualBox 4.2.6. Then, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 into the VM.
First off, after I installed the VirtualBox Guest ...
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Maximum terminal resolution in ubuntu server virtual box guest
I have a VM machine running ubuntu 14.04 (guest) on a Win7 host. I currently have the resolution of the server set to 1024*768 by adding this
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash xvga=1024x768x24"
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"xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed" when trying to change resolution on external monitor
I've been trying to set up an external monitor for a bit, finally got it mostly working except the resolution is off. My monitor's native res is 1600x900, which I finally got to show up in xrandr:
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Xconfig xrandr BadMatch
Recently I minimal installed my OS, but got an unexpected error while setting my monitor resolution. It seems like a very old problem, but this time there is something else (I think).
To install the ...
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Proper way to change terminal resolution in Ubuntu Server 13.04? [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu Server 13.04 in a VMware VM running only in command-line mode (i.e. no GUI). It defaults to a 640x480 screen resolution, but I'd like to increase that to either 800x600 or 1024x768.
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Adjusting resolution for individual Wine programs [duplicate]
How can I specify the resolution of a program to 800*600, and for other programs to full screen or other specific resolutions?
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How to set the screen resolution in Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit running under VMware workstation 12 player on a Windows 7 host?
I can set the screen resolution manually once I log in using the following command:
xrandr -s 1360x768
but I am not able to make it "stick". Every time I log back in, the resolution for a little ...
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How set my monitor resolution? [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu on my desktop, but my monitor don't pass more than 800x600 resolution.
My monitor is good at 1360x768. How can I set resolution at 1380x768 ?
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How do I configure Ubuntu for a 21:9 screen?
I have an ultra wide screen, 21:9 resolution, AOS. There's no option for 21:9 in the Ubuntu display settings though so I have to have the monitor set to 16:9 which kind of defeats the purpose of ...
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Virtual Machines: High-DPI screen scale resets to 100% when I resize VM's window
I've installed Ubuntu (tried 17.10 and 18.04 pre-release), since I have a 4k monitor I went to Settings - Devices - Displays and set Scale to 200%.
Everything looks fine until I resize a VM's window (...
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How to programmatically determine DPI of images in PDF file?
I have some PDF files that I want to split apart into TIFF files using convert (in order to OCR via tesseract). This so far is working great - except that in order to automate the whole process, I ...
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How to set different scaling on multi monitor (3 monitors)
I have 3 monitors, the left one is 4k, while the other 2 are 1080p. The problem I am having is that if I have the 1080p monitors on normal scaling, the 4k monitor is basically unusable because ...
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How to run xrandr commands at startup in Ubuntu
How can I run the following xrandrcommand on startup?
xrandr
cvt 1368 768
xrandr --newmode "1368x768_60.00" 85.25 1368 1440 1576 1784 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 ...
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Screen resolution stuck at 1024x768
I just updated from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and have an issue regarding the screen resolution. I have Intel integrated gfx chip and my monitor supports resolutions larger than 1024x768. (in 10.10 I've ...
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Changing refresh rate for specific monitor
I have 3 monitors, one of which is a CRT, and I need to bump up it's refresh rate to 75/80 to get rid of the flicker, I've used it with my Raspberry Pi and it fully supports up to 100Hz. When I use ...
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20.04 - Google Chrome Display Glitches after wake up
If I had chrome opened, and I put my laptop to sleep. When I log back in, google chrome's display gets distorted and becomes black (seen in screenshot below).
All tabs becomes black and when I move ...
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How to set per-monitor scaling on Wayland?
I understand from here and other places that Wayland offeres per-monitor scaling settings to handle cases such as a HiDPI laptop screen with a low DPI external monitor (my situation). I installed ...
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How to force Multiple Monitors correct resolutions for LightDM?
I am affected by the BUG: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/874241
Otherwise, if like me you have a laptop connected to a second monitor of higher resolution, LIGHTDM at the ...
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