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Questions related to hardware displays, either internal (as in a laptop) or external (as in most desktop monitors, or projectors)

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Desktop is cropped

My desktop looks like this: As you can see, it is cropped - I only see the bottom part of the top toolbar, and the right side of the left toolbar (when there are open windows near the bottom or right ...
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How to set up dual monitor with Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and Nvidia Quadro K2200

I have a problem with Dell Precision Tower 3620 with two Dell P2717H displays. Both are connected via DisplayPort-cables to Nvidia card. I have a fresh clean install from Kubuntu 16.04.1, with which ...
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How do I shut down Ubuntu after it blanks the screen? [duplicate]

My Ubuntu 16.04 installation always becomes unresponsive after it blanks the screen (Standby is turned off.) I tried the power button and Enter; no luck. How can I shut it down without risk of damage ...
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Laptop with TV via Mini DP: display settings lost - reverts to mirrored at random

Background: I have a Lenovo T530 laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. I use it on my TV, which is connected via the mini DP connection with a mini DP to HDMI cable. This laptop appears to be using Nvidia ...
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Display issues with Asus R500V and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Asus R500V series laptop, which had Windows as its previous OS. This laptop has an Fn button to access some hotkeys. Fn + f8 toggles between screens if an external ...
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External HDMI monitor blinking after upgrade to 16.04

I'm getting many issues after upgrade to 16.04 in my Dell 15R 5537. Today I was unable to watch movies as I used to do with 15.10 in my Sony 42' TV with resolution of 1290x1080 using HDMI cable. Now ...
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Issue pushing 60Hz @ 4k

I have a Lenovo Yoga 900 running Ubuntu 16.04 and kernel version 4.7.0. I'm using a USB-C -> HDMI 2.0 adapter to push my Seiki SE42UM TV. I can get full 4k@60Hz in Windows, but in Ubuntu I can't get ...
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detached screen with unreadable characters

I have a detached screen that I checked this morning and, for an unknown reason, characters are now unreadable: Someone out there has experienced this issue before? PS: I am running under Ubuntu ...
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Configuration dconf Editor How To to get Settings - > Displays to Work

One of my Boxes’ Post Upgrade from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS the System Setting - > Displays gives "Could not get screen information". On the same Box when signed in a “Guest” Settings - > Displays ...
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How can I mirror my iPhone to Ubuntu 16.04?

How can I mirror my iPhone to Ubuntu 16.04? I have an iPhone 5 and I just want to mirror its screen on my monitor. Is there currently any way to do that? I would prefer a native solution instead of a ...
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XRandr possible configurations Ubuntu MATE 16.04

I was checking out XRandr and I ran it rogue and it showed this in one of the lines : Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1366 x 768, maximum 32767 x 32767 Does this mean I can configure it to a ...
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How to get External Display work in Zenbook with Intel Graphics?

I bought a laptop ASUS Zenbook ux305ua. There is a micro HDMI port on this laptop. When I plug a HDMI-2-VGA adapter on laptop with Windows, it works as well, but ubuntu 16.04 cannot detect external ...
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How do I get rid of the flickering green line on the bottom of my screen?

There is an annoying green line with white dots on the bottom of my screen. The left side as the dots, and they are constantly flickering and it is a great distraction. I've only seen this after ...
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How to fix 16.04 blurry fuzzy screen?

Not getting a good display at 1900x1080 and have to use 1680x1050 It is quite blurry at 1900x1080. Can't even look at the screen without a headache. Is there a way to fix it? I've upgraded what I ...
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Ubuntu "Could not get screen information" after upgrade

I have upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04 and now when I open Display Settings I get the message "Could Not get Screen Information"(here is a screenshot): There are multiple questions ...
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Display brightness does not change on the fly

My laptop, Acer Aspire 5740, running Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 as dual boot. On Windows I can change the display brightness so that it changes instantly, but when I boot into Ubuntu and change the ...
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How to set resolution to native screen resolution? (over 1920x1080) [duplicate]

I have a 17" laptop with Intel 6700HQ and Nvidia 950M inside (ASUS N752VX). When I boot Windows, it starts with native resolution of the display which is 2560x1440. On Ubuntu, I can't go over ...
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Kubuntu clock display often shows wrong Timezone

This is sort of related to, but not quite the same as: Kubuntu 14.04 clock showing only UTC despite correct timezone I have a laptop that only runs Kubuntu, I have the system clock set to use UTC, ...
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Second monitor doesn't get signal if highest resolution is set after upgrade to 16.04

I have two monitors connected to PC DisplayPort using DisplayPort-DVI converter. Samsung SyncMaster EX2220 and B2240. Ubuntu 16.04. Videocard is Intel® Haswell Desktop Problem that second monitor ...
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Display became too big for the screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04

On Ubuntu 16.04 the display has become to big for the screen This seems not to be adjustable from settings (lower or higher resolution 9:6 - still keeps overscreen.) "Monitor setting" from Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 External Display Stopped Working (Black)

I've been running Ubuntu on my laptop for a couple of years and upgraded to 16.04 several months ago with no problems. I go out on site regularly so often plug my laptop into external screens through ...
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HP Mini 2133 Display Resolution Issue

I have installed Lubuntu on my old laptop/netbook. I am having issues with the display drivers, it's stuck on one resolution 840x600. That is the only option available. The laptop ran fine at 1024x600 ...
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Dual monitor not detected

I've a desktop computer having Ubuntu 16.04 updated from 14.04 (It wan't working in 14.04 too though). I've two graphic cards on system. They are as follow, 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 is not detecting external displays

I upgraded to 16.04, but my Dell XPS 13 is not detecting my 2 external monitors. I am using a Dell Display Link that was working on when I was on 14.04. I have 2 monitors, my keyboard and my mouse ...
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16.04 LTS Display Problems: Chromium, Gimp, etc

I am running 16.04 LTS. My motherboard is made by MSI. It uses an AMD 64-bit processor with either a Radeon HD4200 or HD3000 GPU. I will describe the problems I have been having. I wonder whether they ...
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Second display problem

Preface: I have a laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 / Windows 10 in dualboot and 2 external displays, one with VGA input, and another with HDMI. Various times I'm using HDMI display as the second on Windows ...
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Change Resolution on ubuntu 16.04 32 bit not working

I am on ubuntu 16.04 now, i had upgraded from 14.04 32 bit. I only can set a resolution of 1024x768 or 800x600, but on ubuntu 14.04 I could set a better resolution. What can I do? I have tried to do ...
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Xubuntu 16.04: Monitor going to standby then back on again at start-up

After selecting my Xubuntu 16.04 partition from the Grub menu, my monitor goes into standby, stating "No signal", then shortly after comes back on again and Xubuntu loads as normal. It does not seem ...
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Ubuntu laptop screen + external hdmi screen

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron n7110 laptop. When I try to connect to my external monitor with HDMI, things just fall apart. Both monitors are Dell products with max resolution ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 stuck in low graphics mode

I am stuck in low graphics mode and can't get out! I have tried many solutions that I have found, so far none work. I looked at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and this is what it said: I have no idea ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 Upgrade Display Issue

Upgraded desktop running AMD A10-7870K and Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H Motherboard. From Ubuntu 14.04LTS to 16.04. Upon restart the monitor shows bios but then goes blank. No Ubuntu logon page. Rebooted pc ...
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Transparent GUI when running ABAQUS CAE

I am running the ABAQUS CAE (6-14.1) on a laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The application launches but I get the following list of errors. *******Begin: List of Error Messages********** X Error: code ...
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Ubuntu screen problem

I have a problem with the ubuntu display. The ubuntu screen only covers middle portion of my laptop screen leaving to black bars on side. The screen almost looks like the screen which gets displayed ...
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Can I use my Ubuntu notebook's display as second external monitor for my Windows desktop? [closed]

I have two different devices: A notebook running Ubuntu and a desktop computer running Windows 10. I want to connect my notebooks display to my desktop computer as additional external monitor. Is ...
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How to use 1k external monitor with 4k Dell Precision laptop

I have a 4k Dell Precision 5510 laptop, and I need to add a 1k external monitor to it, but I can't get the resolutions to get along. If I use @2x scaling, everything looks comically large (and ...
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Screen flickering on Ubuntu 16.4 while inactivity

I am a total Linux newbie and just installed Ubuntu 16.04 Unity a few days ago as a second OS besides Windows 10. Unfortunately it seems there is something wrong with the screen. Whenever there is no ...
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Display Issues - Desktop larger than TV display

I just migrated my HTPC from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 16.04. The install went fine however, at a resolution of 1280x720 or 1920x1080, the actual desktop is wider than the TV screen (primarily on the left ...
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When installing from the bootable USB, I get an error on my monitor (Monitor Out of Range)

I know this question may seem similar to When I turn the monitor on, I get an “input out of range”, how do I fix this?, but it certainly isn't. My question, although causing the same error, happens ...
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Belkin HDMI to VGA adapter not displaying / not detected

I purchased a Belkin HDMI to VGA adapter (also carries Audio). I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 (Gnome) on a 15" Macbook Pro Late 2013 Model (DMI: Apple Inc. MacBookPro11,3/Mac-2BD1B31983FE1663, BIOS MBP112....
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External display on usb-c doesn't work above 1024px resoultion

I bought Asus Zenbook Pro ux501vw and DELL DA200 device. I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my asus and connect external monitor via HDMI and it works good. When I tried to connect 2nd external Monitor ...
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Why does my Xubuntu 16.04 desktop think that it is a laptop? How do I instruct it otherwise?

I have a desktop and it has a single screen attached to it. It appears that something in my hardware is causing various flavors of Ubuntu to identify my device as a laptop with an additional screen. ...
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4k resolution on xenial [closed]

I'm using a NUC5i5RYK (which comes with an Intel 6000 graphics) and Ubuntu Xenial 16.04. Today I purchased a 4K TV which is connected via the display port on nuc, and by the spec it must support 4K@...
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How can I make Ubuntu always recognize my external monitor on the left side?

Every time I turn on my laptop and plug in my external monitor via HDMI, I need to go to the display settings to adjust the default settings. On start-up, I get a duplicated screen instead of the ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 - no Unity, no Launcher, no Dash

After my latest sudo apt-get upgrade the launcher and the start bar on the left-hand side did no longer appear. Also, the Terminal did not load up when pressing CTRL + ALT + t. Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit, ...
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Kubuntu 14.04 Black screen after trying a live USB

I am using Kubuntu 14.04 for more than a year without any problems. Today I booted to a Live USB Kubuntu 16.04 to see what's new and so decide to meke the upgrade or not. I just check if all the ...
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Auto Set Resolution

Ok so, a while back I asked a question on how to manually set my vga resolution on Ubuntu. But I need to do this upon LOGIN (ie NOT ON BOOT). I need to run sudo cvt 1366 768 && sudo xrandr --...
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Lubuntu on Netbook Cannot Display Native Resolution

I recently came across an orphaned Samsung NC10 and started working on it (1.6Ghz Atom with 2GB RAM and a 60GB SSD). The display is (allegedly) a 1024x600 LCD with a 60 hertz refresh rate. It's ...
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drm:drm_edid_block_valid slowing down booting

drm_edid_block_valid is appearing a lot in dmesg, where I am looking for the reasons of my slow booting process. Here is the output: [ 13.884900] audit: type=1400 audit(1467376765.370:11): apparmor=...
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Display is on 42" TV on Kbuntu

I have installed Kbuntu 16.04 LTS On Intel® Desktop Board DH55TC With Intel® Core™ i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz 500 GB SATA hard drive Connected to 42" LG TV with HDMI cable TP-Link 300 MB USB wireless LAN ...
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Set default Resolution system wide [duplicate]

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. addicted@ADDICTED:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 ...
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