Questions tagged [screen]
Video and resolution shown by the monitor. Do NOT use this tag for GNU SCREEN.
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Starting a program in a Screen session via SSH
Okay, there are a few similar topics to this one, but what I want to do is run a program in a screen session on a remote computer.
Taking my lead from this thread
In the hope that it is correct, I ...
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I can only see a portion of my screen in the gui
My son was doing something on the machine and he made the GUI unusable.
It appears to be zoomed in so much that I only see a portion of the screen.
There is a taskbar on the left with enormous icons.
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Blank screen with blinking cursor after running xdiagnose
I have had this problem twice in a row trying to follow these instructions:
Solution for low screen resolution in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu
I have installed Ubuntu 15.04, and had everything running okay ...
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increase screen resolution in ubuntu
Today when I turned on my computer Ubuntu had a very low resolution but when i tried to change it said the maximum was 1024x768 (i have a very big moniter) how do i get a higher resolution thnx in ...
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Screen has broken color set after a while - Ubuntu 14.04
After a while of no activity the screen locks, but when I log in the screen looks like this:
:D
I am sure it is something with the software, not the hardware as I have never experienced similar ...
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How to Disable Ubuntu Phone "auto dim" function?
Is there a way to disable the auto dim function of the Ubuntu Phone (14.10 r22)?
Even though I can disable the auto-brightness function and set the screen timeout to 10 minutes (or never) the screen ...
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Screen in crontab
I'm trying to run 9 screens windows by crontab, and then, run some codes (basically the same for all of them), but they don't work.
The code runs all of 9 screens, but run code only on the first.
Aah, ...
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Trigger capture of screen using a mouse click
Is it possible to tweak shutter in such a way that I can capture the image in my screen by simply clicking the mouse and not pressing enter on the keyboard?
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GUI problems AFTER login
I have been searching for the answer for a while and can't seem to find the same problem anywhere.
It loads fine to the login screen. The guest account works perfectly fine.
Then, when I log into my ...
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Blank Screen After installing Ubuntu server 14.04 on Dell Poweredge T20
I have a problem of Blank screen after installing Ubuntu Server 14.04 on Dell T20 server, actually while installing there is no F6 options but while installing in the VMWare i am getting the F6 option ...
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Ubuntu Phone Aquaris E4.5 dead screen
I bought a new latest Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition.
Phone is updated to Ubuntu 14.04, everything official.
Phone was working quite fine until yesterday, when sudenly screen went of an since then I can'...
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touch screen calibration [duplicate]
I'm trying to calibrate NEC tablet PC running Ubuntu 14.04.
After the calibration using xinput I try to copy the results to the 10-evdev.conf,but cannot save it because of a permission error.
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Blank screen after locking screen
I just updated my Xubuntu 14.10 desktop to 15.04 and I'm having the following issue:
When I lock my computer (or when the inactivity timer locks it for me), the screen goes blank and I cannot get ...
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How to keep the window manage in the central screen
so this is a question of multiple displays. I am using three displays along my laptop in Ubuntu 12.04. When I press alt-tab the window manage appears on the screen that I am working, that is, if I am ...
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Screen dimming doesn't work (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
I have an Asus laptop (G53SW), on which I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (because I had it laying around) which upgraded itself to 14.04LTS.
For the most part it works well but the one annoying issue is that ...
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Why did my ubuntu 14.04 boot animation dissapear? And how do I fix it?
So I just started using Ubuntu a couple of days ago, and I'm loving it so far but this has been bothering me. Every time I boot into Ubuntu, a bunch of usb errors appear and then the tty1 screen ...
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Cannot see bottom of printer setup screen
I am new to Ubuntu, but it seems pretty straightforward so far, except for this glitch.
Intel® 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 graphics on HP Mini 110C running 14.4 LTS. All other screens work normally so far....
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Black screen after grub menu since 3.16.0-36 kernel update
After updating Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (64 bit) from kernel version 3.16.0-34 to 3.16.0-36, when I boot the system I can see the grub menu correctly, but if I choose the 3.16.0-36 kernel a black screen ...
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Eeepc Ubuntu 14.04 Problems: Video, audio, screen flicking and suspend failure
I install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my Eeepc 1101HA with processor Intel Atom CPUZ520 and I have some problems:
Screen is flicking, shacking.....
Video doesn-t work, is very slow and impossible to see ...
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How do I stop my screensaver from darkening and pausing? It happens frequently and I need to stop this
My screen keeps dimming and while it is dimmed, it pauses for a few minutes and this happens very frequently. I have gone into settings in the desktop and screensaver, but this does no good. I have ...
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Low screen brightness
If I turn on my laptop without charger, my screen brightness is very low, not only in Ubuntu desktop but in Grub too. I've got dual-boot, Windows hasn't got this problem. So can you suggest me any ...
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Rotating a yoga pro 2 screen with xrandr on ubuntu 15.04
I just upgraded to ubuntu 15.04 and the xrandr command I used to use has stopped working:
xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate inverted
All the other rotations work fine, "left, right, normal."
But ...
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How do I keep the screen contents after quitting less or more?
After exiting from less or more, the screen contents are returned to what they were before. This happens with pagers like less/more, and some other commands. Sometimes it is necessary to keep the ...
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Installing NVIDIA driver on Kubuntu 15.04 causes a bad screen resolution
I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.04. Before installing 15.04 I used Ubuntu 14.10 with the latest NVIDIA drivers. With that version I had no problems with the graphic card (screen resolution).
Btw. ...
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Output of xrandr shows 1024x768+1366+0; what does it mean and can I change it?
$ xrandr
VGA1 connected 1024x768+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
I don't understand what the number 1366 in 1024x768+1366+0 represents. Can I change its value?
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No video on built-in display after installing 14.04
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Asus N53TA notebook, but after the first reboot I got no video on the built-in display, although through the hdmi port everything works fine.
If I change the built-...
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Some times when i close the lid of my laptop I get black screen
I bought a LENOVO G50-70 59-440027 laptop.
some times I close the lid and when I open it up again I get black screen and the only way to see my screen is to power cycle the laptop.
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How do I stop the lock screen from dimming to black?
I've spent a ton of time searching for this on Google, and I still can't seem to find it. Please read fully before answering, because the majority of the answers I'm finding are about preventing ...
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Dark and black colors on screen have fuzzy 'noise'
The closest thing to this problem I can find is Fuzzy static noise on screen, but that is not the same problem I am having.
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 on an Asus G750JW laptop. I have installed the ...
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Monitor dimming inconsistently
Occasionally the screen dims and also turn back normal on it's own even though I have disabled "dim screen when inactive" and have set "Blank screen" to "never" in power options. Moreover, the system ...
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Some dialog boxes are bigger than screen/display
I have an embedded board with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS GNOME 3.4.1. With this board I am using LCD display 800x480 and HID resistive touchscreen. Everything works fine but I have a problem with some dialog ...
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Running a command in screen daemon mode
I am trying to run a command in screen mode using the command
screen -dmS screen_name sed -i 's/a/b/'g some-file.txt
Nothing happens. When I put the same command in a script and run the command:
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Screen resolution not recongized, drivers not working
For no apparent reason after restarting my laptop the screen resolution which was a native 1920x1080p on my Samsung Syncmaster went down to 1400x1050p. I checked "Displays" in my system settings and ...
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Laptop screen goes blank
My laptop screen goes blank (everything else responsive otherwise) after a random number of seconds (of active use, not idle) of booting the OS.
I've noted, everything is fine after fresh ...
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White lines flashing on screen after sleep mode
I have a strange problem occurring on my laptop screen.
As soon as I have exited sleep mode a white flickering horizontal line maybe 1 or 2 pixels broad appears at the top of the screen.
I am using ...
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What is a good Ubuntu application for adjusting the screen colour balance and contrast?
It seems that the screen of my Samsung Series 7 Chronos laptop has a weird white glare. (try seeing how the pdf file on the Overleaf website looks like!)
I installed "redshift" but that is just ...
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How do I set screen resolution for a specific program?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I wish to force a specific program to run at a predetermined screen resolution and have the screen return to my default resolution after closing the program. The program is ...
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Ubuntu Gnome: Disable second screen by default
I have an Nvidia GTX 670 with a 22' Samsung Monitor and a 40' Sony HDTV. My problem is every time I log in Ubuntu, I have to manually disable the TV (I use Ubuntu mainly for programming and surfing ...
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Creating a virtual video device, processing signal and redirecting it to physical output on Ubuntu 14.04
In Ubuntu 14.4, I need to apply some video processing to the whole screen for a project I'm working on. I want to do the following:
Create a virtual video output that Ubuntu detects as a second ...
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How can I execute a script on screen change?
Context: I have one large monitor, a desktop and a laptop. I use the large monitor and a HDMI switch when I'm at home. This give synergy a problem in that it doesn't recognize parts of the screen if ...
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Screen resolution too low on Dell e7240
I purchased a Dell Latitude e7240 with Ubuntu 12.04.
In system settings, the highest proposed resolution is 1366x768, which is well below my expectations.
I could not find any way to get an higher ...
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cannot exec 'anything' : no such file or directory screen
I’m running some call of duty game servers with screen.
I have a start.sh:
#!/bin/bash
user=cabe
game=cod
verision=cod1.5
server=xxx.xx.xxx:28970
mod=
ip=xxx.xx.xxx
port=28970
punkbuster=1
slots=...
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Screen went blank (black)
I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for 2 weeks now. I did browsing using Firefox or Chrome then suddenly screen went blank. I tried to press any keys, but none worked. Thus I needed to press Power key ...
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Display again the first screen after installation 14.04LTS [duplicate]
After installing Ubuntu 14.04LTS, I was greeted with a screen that I was afraid I would never see again after closing it, so I took a picture of it with a camera:
The question is: How can I display ...
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Run a multi-line script in Screen
I want to run this script in a screen:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
java -server -Xms2G -Xmx2G -jar craftbukkit.jar
echo "If you want to completely stop the server process now, press Ctrl+C ...
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Check if a screen is active and then display countdown
#!/bin/bash
DATE=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")
Backup_from="/home/mc/server/prison/"
Backup_to="/home/mc/backups/PRISON-$DATE.tar"
echo "Starting backup of $Backup_from to $Backup_to"
screen -dmS backup tar -...
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Ubuntu 14.04 detects my monitor as a built in display
I just started using Linux and I literally know nothing about it. The current resolution is at 1024x768 and the other option is to change it to 800x 600. My monitor is 1920x1080. It also detects my ...
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Move windows between screens in dual screen mode
I have a laptop and a 27 inch monitor. I have Qt running on one monitor and Pycharm on the other. Is there a way to make a key combination to swap all the windows between both screens. The reason is ...
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Sending commands to detached screen doesn't work
I'm attempting to create a detached screen and then send it a command, but this doesn't seem to be working.
If I enter the following commands:
$ screen -ls
No Sockets found in /var/run/screen/S-ec2-...
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Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit screen tearing
Hardware:
NVidia GTX 780
I7 4770k
16 gb RAM
1x 128gb SSD + 2tb HDD + 1tb HDD
Software:
Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit.
Latest NVidia Driver.
Issue:
Whenever I watch a youtube video or a movie(Sometimes even ...