Questions tagged [screen]
Video and resolution shown by the monitor. Do NOT use this tag for GNU SCREEN.
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strange screen disturbance
I am using ubuntu 16.04 and chrom as web server. I get often the strange dusturbance in some parts / lines on the screen like in the picture for example. Does anyone know why is this happening and how ...
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Problem with screen sharing in Skype on Ubuntu 16.04
I have a problem with sharing my screen and seeing other people's screen in Skype 4.3.0.37 on Ubuntu 16.04, the button is grayed out for me and when other people try to share their screen just nothing ...
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Mirror single window
Is there a way to mirror a single window on my screens?
I want to mirror just one window between two screens, not the whole monitor.
At the moment I am using Ubuntu 15.10.
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unresponsive right click result box overlays everything
Every now and then my system runs into following issue
When I right click on an item to select one of the options, the resultant box becomes unresponsive and just stays there, it overlays everything ...
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How do you use the TTY (without X server) on one screen, and X on the other?
While playing around with Ubuntu, I turned off the window manager. Unable to operate the terminal in xserver, I jumped over to a bash command line (Ctrl-Alt-F1), and relaunched lightdm.
After having ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Brightness & Lock - Screen does not turn off
I have 16.04 LTS on a Dell XPS13 (L321X) and an external LG display connected.
I set it up to:
-dim the screen
-turn screen off when inactive for 10 minutes
-lock ON
-lock screen as soon as screen ...
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Fixing black screen
I dont know why Dell redictered me to you guys but I'm having issues with my laptop and I'm hoping you can help. A few hours ago I restarted it and when it came back on it loaded and just showed a ...
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The screen stays off and the laptop is unresponsive after waking from sleep
I installed ubuntu 16.04 LTS a week after official release using the mini ISO, then ubuntu-desktop without recommended packages. Since then, just installing packages on a need to basis.
After trying ...
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Brightness key not working Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I've just installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Lenovo Z400 notebook and everything was working.
Today I tried to change the brightness of the screen and it gets dark and I can't go back.
Can anyone help me?
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Shift screen with xrandr
Some days ago I crashed my laptop's screen. For now I can only see a part (more than half screen) the right part, so the launcher and many things that appear usually at left are hidden, and most of ...
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Xubuntu 16.04 Firefox 46 screen distortion when scrolling
Screen distorts (shimmers, wavy lines/appearance) when scrolling in any web page.
Disabling hardware acceleration and smooth scrolling, doesn't make any difference.
Problem doesn't exist in Chromium ...
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Scaling 3rd party programs on small size high resolution display
I have Dell 9350 (13 inch) and installed Ubuntu 16.04. I am able to use my resolution at 3200 x 1800 but I have small screen so I have to adjust scale for menu and title bars setting 1 to 2 in order ...
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Convergence with Meizu Pro 5 over USB C?
I'm interested in the answer to this post but nobody has answered to it:
[Meizu] says [the Meizu Pro 5] will not support video and audio over USB C. Is this a software or hardware related issue?
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Black screen flashes on second monitor on Ubuntu 16
I upgrade my Ubuntu from 15.10 to 16.04 yesterday and after fixing some hiccups most things are working fine.
However, I have one very annoying bug that lets my external monitor (connected to the ...
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Screen Tearing on Kubuntu 16.04 with Intel Drivers?
So, quick background, on Kubuntu and have massive screen tearing issues. I have never had these problems on any other Linux Distros. Videos look really choppy, overall it's not a good experience. I ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 screen brigthness problem in videos
In my laptop I have a very annoying problem
When I'm in Chrome or seen a movie and I don't touch the touchpad the screen attenuates automatically
It's annoying because the brightness automatically ...
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Cannot change brightness (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Unity)
I'm new to Linux systems in general (I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) and I'm having difficulty in changing the brightness of my notebook.
When I use the Fn+F8 or Fn+F9 the brightness bar shows up but ...
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New 16.04 install, screen goes blank at random
I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside no other OS. After I login, my display will go black and the system will not respond to any input. It will happen at random times, never in the same fashion twice....
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Black screen after ubuntu gnome 16.04 update
I have a dual boot windows 10& ubuntu 16.04. I just updated it to 16.04 from 15.10(gnome version) and when the system restared it asked me which system I want to boot,I chose ubuntu and the logo ...
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Partially blurred screen
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and my screen is sometimes blurred as on the picture.
It sometimes disappears after restart and sometimes it appears again.
Do you know what is the cause of this problem and ...
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Force deactivate pixel rows on top of the screen
A laptop that recently came into my possession has part of the screen at the top damaged. It's current resolution is 1280 x 600, at the ratio of 16:10.
Is there anything I can do forcibly change the ...
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permanently changing screen resolution
I have to readjust my screen resolution every time I restart my laptop. Is there a way to permanently change it to what I want?
I have been using xrandr to change it temporarily.
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How to adjust screen settings: contrast, color saturation, etc
using Xubuntu 14.04 with a HP mini notebook.
I can't seem to find any program to adjust screen settings: contrast, brightness, and more importantly: color saturation, tint and gamma.
Thanks ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 dispaly resolution problem
I am using Ubuntu for quite a while now. Just scrolling through the display settings I noticed that the screen resolution only gives me two options 1024x768 and 800x600 in a 4:3 aspect ratio while my ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 won't run after restarting
I downloaded Ubuntu 15.10 and erased the disk and installed it. Afterwards I ran update and upgrade commands and that's it.
I have not updated drivers or anything else. Afterwards I installed GNOME ...
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looking for a dyslexic colour tint for my screen [duplicate]
I am looking a program to put a green colour tinted filter over my screen? can anyone help?
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AT commands in screen/minicom
I can connect to serial port in /dev/ttyUSB0 using screen or minicom. When I type the AT commands, the letters I type do not appear, just the output message. Example: If a type "AT" and press enter, ...
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Screen Tearing/Horizontal lines
When I browse or do stuff in my living computer it turns off for a few seconds and comes back on but now it has horzontal lines/glitch
What do I do??
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Programs sometimes open on the wrong monitor
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04LTS 32bit version with 2 screens.
Graphic card is the Nvidia Geforce 9500GT.
One screen is the main monitor, where the other is connected to my beamer for the home cinema.
I'...
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Ubuntu 14.04.4 - Screen is blank with blinking cursor
Well now, when trying to force Hatari onto a particular screen, in the process deleting xorg.conf, I seem to have broken everything.
Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu 14.04.4, everything seems to ...
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How can I automatically switch off my internal screen on startup if an external monitor is connected?
Solution anyone for a newb? I connect my notebook to external monitor with HDMI. I switch off screen notebook since I'm not using it. Ubuntu 15.04 remembered this setting after reboot, but with 15.10 ...
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Problem with login screen
I'm an ultra nooby beginner with Linux and Kubuntu, so please be patient :) Since yesterday I've got a stupid problem. When I turn on my PC, and when my login screen shows up, after 2-3 second it ...
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Screen: Cannot exec '/path/to/file': Permission denied
Simply said, I can't execute any file or directory with screen.
The error 'Cannot exec '/path/to/file': permission denied.' occurs every time.
I'm logged in with root, and should have all permissions ...
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Screen is cut in half, when there is movement
I run kubuntu on an small htpc. The PC is connected to my TV via HDMI. Everything is fine until there is some movement. One half of the screen is a little off. Like this: example
The horizontal line,...
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Record screen as well as internal audio?
I'm trying to screen record some videos on a particular site. So far, I have tried simplevideorecorder, recordmydesktop and kazam as well (after browsing several threads here). I can get the screen ...
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Dim screen with transparent black image
The LCD backlighting of my notebook's screen uses PWM to dim the display, and because of this, I experience eye-strain whenever I lower the brightness. Maximum brightness however seems too much in ...
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Mistake by un-installing file manager – blank screen
I have un-installed PcManfm, default file manager from Lubuntu as I was too annoyed by it and wanted to install Dolphin. To avoid any conflicts I did this before installing Dolphin and stupidly I ...
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Ubuntu login screen wallpaper switches to match user wallpaper now. How to disable? [duplicate]
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Tweak to change the login screen wallpaper. Somewhere along the way, the login screen wallpaper now matches the user wallpaper background, overriding the ...
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Brightness control is blocked after reaching minimum
Several days ago I tried to fix a quite popular problem. I have Ubuntu 15.10. In my computer the brightness control keys weren't working.
I have added a file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
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Problems with graphics while booting UBUNTU
I have installed the minimal UBUNTU 15.04 - NO GUI and I DO NOT want it.
This Ubuntu has 3.19.0-49-generic kernel.
When the system boots with this kernel at the beginning I can see strange characters/...
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I had windows, fedora, ubuntu on my computer, i uninstalled ubuntu and i am stuck at boot screen
I recently uninstalled ubuntu and i cannot access my fedora os because im stuck in a screen called GNU GRUB version 2.02 beta...
What i did was deleting the ubuntu partition from fedora
How can I ...
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Why Is my computer screen not turning on and DVDs drive keeps trying to play a disk
When I turn on my computer the cylinder light for hard drive flashes at the same time as the dvd drive light flashes. The screen works intermittently but it never goes past anything but the starting ...
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Keep Screen On When Watching Online Videos
I really like Ubuntu 14.04 so far. But when I watch a video on-line, I need to move my mouse every few minutes to avoid screen going black - highly annoying and doesn't make much sense when nearly ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 Video card crash
ubuntu boots just fine but sometimes the display just freezes.
So i'm guessing it's a GPU problem.
My graphics card is a r9 390x and works just fine on windows.
Is there something i can do to fix ...
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Two independent monitors with two independent desktops
OS: Xubuntu 15.10
GPU: Nvidia Quadro K4000 with nvidia-352-63 driver
I asked this question on the Xfce forum and got no responses, so I decided to repost the question here.
I have two independent ...
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Purrple screen with broken external video card
a fresh installation of Ubuntu get's stuck on a purple screen when I try to load it. Restoring broken packages from recovery mode helps for a single session. I tried installing Nvidia graphics driver ...
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screen save session to the non volatile memory
Is it possible for "screen" program to have a sessions which are
persistant on the hard drive?
Basically as long as my pc is running I can screen -r resume session, but when I reboot the sessions ...
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Fn + left arrow shortcut activates screen settings
I'm running Ubuntu studio 15.10 (xfce). I have problem with keyboard shortcut for decreasing screen brightness Fn + left arrow. It is working but additionally it activates screen settings. How can I ...
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Blinking screen while using wireless connection
I've bought Dell Inspiron 5548 laptop and faced up with the next problem - when I'm using a build-in wireless card screen starts blinking, it happens every time when I'm using it(watch online video, ...
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System Tray Icons
My system tray icons appear to be little square boxes instead of icons in login screen. On my user desktop however, they show up as the correct icons. This appears to have started after playing with ...
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