Questions tagged [multiple-monitors]
Questions about multiple monitors (Including projectors), how to configure,customize, and troubleshoot, etc.
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video-dummy - The Fake display with/without monitor connected at the same time
I have installed the xserver-xorg-video-dummy-hwe-18.04 to let I use the VNC without needs to connect HDMI cable to my ubuntu machine.
I followed the Topic here, and successfully able to use VNC ...
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Make new windows always open in specific monitor by default
Ubuntu 18.04.2 x86_64
I have a dual monitor setup. The behaviour for opening a new window is very inconsistent among applications and it's annoying:
Pressing Ctrl+N in Firefox seems to always open a ...
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Lenovo docking station issues - Going to sleep and not waking up with screens
Here is the setup:
L460
Thinkpad dock
2x Samsung monitors over Display Port
Ubuntu 16.04
Expected behavior:
I would expect that when the laptop is docked, and the lid is closed. The laptop internal ...
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Get Windows Back After Waking Up On 16.04 LTS
On my dual-monitor setup some windows get off screen after the sleep (suspend) mode. I have to manually Alt+Space to move them back. How can this be accomplished automatically after the sleep?
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How do I switch my monitors separately on Ubuntu 14.04?
I have two monitors, and would like each monitor to have its own desktop wall. I did some Googling, installed CompizConfig Settings Manager, and changed Desktop Wall => Viewport Switching => ...
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Mouse movement between screens with different screen resolution
I'm looking for a way to resolve the scaling issues between different resolution monitors and moving the mouse between them.
When moving the mouse to the edge of the screen, it hits an invisible void ...
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Rotate External Display with NVIDIA drivers
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit and have an NVIDIA GeForce 940M graphics card (proprietary NVIDIA drivers are installed for this). I have an external monitor that I want to rotate Counter-Clockwise (...
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How to configure multiple displays with different DPI settings using xfce >= 4.14?
XFCE 4.14 promises HiDPI support. I'd like to use different DPI settings on my laptop screen and on the external monitor, but I can't find any new features improving this particular situation. So what ...
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Notifications on both screens in Ubuntu 18.04
Notifications are useless if I don't always see them. I can't know which screen I'm going to be looking at, so they should appear on both screens. Is there any way to get this to happen in Ubuntu 18....
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Dual monitor using Intel graphics stopped to work on Ubuntu 18.04
I installed ubuntu 18.04 few days after the release. It was working fine until now. Now it is not detecting the external monitor.
My system a Laptop MSI gs30 2m shadow without external dock:
$ ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 -- NVIDIA X Server Display Configuration ( No Scanout)
I am currently using Ubuntu 16.04. My laptop's GPU: NVIDIA NVS 5200 m (and the Intel one).I installed NVIDIA Driver version: 340.96 through
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices | grep recommended
(the same ...
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Command to span window across multiple monitors
Trying to create a shortcut to take the active window and display it across two displays. Using the following only maximizes it on a single monitor:
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -e 0,0,0,1800,2300
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Can't Boot on Dual Monitor
Summary of issue: Can't see GRUB2 boot menu on monitor connected via DVI port.
Up until recently I had everything working fine for my Windows 10 / Ubuntu 18.04.2 dual boot setup. I had two monitors: ...
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External USB C Monitor not being recognised on Ubuntu 17.04
I have an ASUS-Zenbook UX310UA-GL160R and I am trying to connect a second monitor through usb-c to DVI adapter.
Second screen is okay. Tested it with another machine.
Monitor not being detected when ...
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Old LG screen/tv no signal on HDMI
When I run xrandr when the screen is off I can see the HDMI port "connected" with all the screen resolutions options fine.
However, when I turn the screen on, I just get a blank screen and when i run ...
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HDMI to VGA converter connection errors
I'm getting a weird error when connecting my VGA monitor via an Aukey HDMI to VGA adapter to my laptop's HDMI port:
Whether a connection can be established or not (i.e. on startup, when opening ...
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xbacklight -display XX?
I have two displays. I can successfully set brightness for the first display using e.g. xbacklight -set 30, but I cannot dim my second display connected to HDMI. I tried xbacklight -display HDMI1 -set ...
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How to generate ~/.config/monitors.xml file from a script?
I'm writing a script that set ups multi-head configurations, it generates an xorg.conf file and runs an xrandr command to setup the displays.
This works fine until the computer reboots and logs back ...
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How do I change display scaling dynamically?
I have two monitors on my system, a 4k monitor (built-in) and a 1080p monitor (external). Obviously, this causes some issues with scaling due to the fact that windows often have weird sizes and are ...
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Scaling with a 4k monitor and 2k monitor
I'm currently using two 2k monitors and a third 4k monitor.
Is there any way to use max resolution on all of them and scale things up a bit on just the 4k monitor? I've been digging around for ages ...
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Different text scaling factors for different displays?
I just purchased a new laptop, which has a much higher DPI than my prior one did; in fact, its resolution (in a 14" form) is roughly the same as that of my 23" second monitor.
I'd like the text on ...
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XFCE Display Setup
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on another PC, and decided to install XFCE (by installing xubuntu-desktop)
Everything works great, except XFCE refuses to store my screen resolution and setup.
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS unable to setup second monitor
Upon fresh installing Ubuntu 22.04 today, I came across a problem that my main monitor that I want to use (ASUS ROG PG278Q 2k 144Hz Display port) is not being detected. Meanwhile my second monitor(...
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Difficulty to setup two monitors with different resolution and scale
I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with standard Gnome with two monitors, UHD and HD. The left monitor is primary and would need a zoom of its desktop - the factor 1.25 would be perfect. I can't use GUI for that ...
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Multimonitor display settings reset after one display is turned off
Setup:
I have two monitors connected to my GPU, one using DisplayPort, and one using a HDMI to DVI cable. The DisplayPort one is my main monitor.
I am using Ubuntu 19.04 with Nvidia driver 418 on a ...
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Can you get separate workspaces in separate screens?
I am running ubuntu 19.04 with 2 monitors.
Right now, my options to switch workspaces are to either switch workspaces in the primary display while the other one doesn't change, or switch both of them ...
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eclipse on Ubuntu 17.10 - toolbar drop down menus and pop ups moved when using dual monitor set up
When I use eclipse oxygen on Ubuntu 17.10 with a dual monitor set up, the drop down menus and the pop ups from the toolbar are moved downwards:
eclipse - drop down menu:
eclipse - pop up:
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17.10 Freezing When Moving Windows
This issue occurred both before and after I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 17.10.
I have a dual monitor setup 27" and 24" using a GTX 970.
When I am moving a window around either by clicking ...
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2560x1440 resolution on 16.04 and ATI/AMD Radeon HD4670 card
I'm trying to setup two monitor configuration on my laptop with dual OS setup (ubuntu 16.04 and win7) connecting 27" Dell u2717d monitor via DisplayPort.
I have single video adapter ATI/AMD Radeon ...
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Unplugging HDMI cable doesn't switch back to single monitor mode on Lenovo Yoga 3 11 laptop
I have a Lenovo Yoga 3 11 laptop with Ubuntu 15.04. When I plug the HDMI cable to my external monitor, the system goes into multi-monitor mode so I can use the laptop display and the external monitor ...
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How to set different scaling on multiple monitors?
I have a notebook with a resolution of 3200x1800, running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS with kernel 4.0.0-040000-generic. Unitys scaling function works great to magnify the menus, titlebar and applications. Now ...
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How to get "xdotool windowsize" to resize a window across two monitors
I have two monitors side-by-side. I can manually resize a window to span across the two monitors. However, I am not able to automate this action using "xdotool". It appears that I can resize the ...
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Mouse is blinking/flickering at my built in monitor with an external monitor, please help
I am using a Thinkpad W530, and due to my works, I need to use an external monitor.
I am using nouveau and nvidia-prime to switch between intel and nvidia adapter.
After I connected and switched on ...
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Two different workspaces for two monitors
I know this question has been asked before in the last 5 years or so, but my situation seems to be different.
I recently aquired a new monitor for my laptop and I'd like to view a separate workspace ...
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After upgrading from13.10 to 14.04 screen on a laptop doesn't work but
First my laptop CPU/GPU is Intel Celeron N2815 (Bay Trail) and I am in dual boot with windows 8.
I have upgraded from ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 today through update manager. And after upgrading and after ...
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Set Large Text from Accessibility for only one screen
I am using ubuntu-22.10 with Wayland. I am facing issues setting the display settings of my laptop and monitors. I am using two external monitors and my laptop display. Their highest resolution is as ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) does not detect higher refresh rates on external monitors
Premise: like many other users, I have also encountered the following issue which has already been documented here: Can't use Wayland with Nvidia 510 drivers on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS although I am ...
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How do I configure xorg.conf for two X screens on one Nvidia card?
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Goal of this post: Figure out what xorg.conf configurations are necessary to use each of my dual monitors as a separate X screen.
Intermediate goal for this post: Figure out why I cannot start X ...
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How to open application on a specific display in Ubuntu 20.04
I am using dual monitors and whenever one of my application opens a new window, it is always created in my secondary display instead of my primary display. I've attempted solutions involving Auto Move ...
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Issues in 20.04 with KDE/Plasma and nvidia cards
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, all up to date, with KDE/Plasma and nvidia Quadro P620 card.
I have two monitors set up with two DELL U2717D monitors.
NVIDIA Driver is 450.80.02
My computer is always ...
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How to set up dual display with dual graphics card on Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm setting up PC with a pair of GeForce GTX 1070 (Both ASUS TURBO 1070) cards and a Philips 246E FHD monitors connected to each via DP(GPU-0) and HDMI(GPU-1).
PC config:
DELL WorkStation Precision ...
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Is it possible to have two monitors with different scales?
I have currently two monitors :
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 6400 x 2160, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-2 connected primary 3840x2160+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm
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Bug using two Monitors with different resolution
I have a very confusing problem.
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 with 2 monitors
My main monitor (15.6") has a resolution of 1920x1080 and my second one is 28" with a 4k resolution.
When I'm using my two ...
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How to use pyshical display when it connected instead of dummy display driver on Ubuntu 18.04
I have Intel NUC with Ubuntu 18.04 which operates as server the most time. Sometimes SSH is not enough and I need to control it using Team Viewer. This is why I installed and set up xserver-xorg-video-...
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Black screen on detected second display on Ubuntu 18.04
I recently updated my laptop to Ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04. When I tried to use my external monitor with it for the first time, everything worked well and I set the external monitor as the primary ...
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Trouble to recognize external monitors at startup
I don't consider myself a linux guru. I'm not sure about what information I need to provide. I will gladly update my question if you give me the instructions.
Setup
HP Spectre x360 - 13-4190nz with ...
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Thinkpad USB 3.0 docking station disconnects and reconnects
I have a Thinkpad T450s with a USB 3.0 docking station (also Lenovo), running 16.04 LTS. The docking station is connected to a few USB peripherals, ethernet, and a DisplayLink monitor. The station ...
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How to keep dual monitor setting after reboot (with gnome, gdm, wayland)
I would like to recover my previous monitors configuration when my computer boots with an external monitor plugged in. It works out of the box with lightdm, gnome, and X session, it's not the case ...
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How to show opened windows in current display with ALT +TAB switcher in Ubuntu?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04, using multiple monitors, when I use ALT+TAB to switch between applications, all the windows in all monitors are coming up and it's confusing me. Can anyone know how to show ...
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Firefox minimizes when using "Always on Visible Workspace" on an hdmi dual monitor
I've never used the always on visible workspace feature without the dual monitor setup, so it's not clear to me whether that part is related.
When I pin a firefox window to every workspace on one ...