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Brightness slider gone, and the brightness is constantly jittering

I've just installed a clean version of 13.10 on my MSI U123. Before I've used 12.4 without a hitch. As soon as I entered the brightness and lock settings window the brightness starts to flicker and ...
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Start byobu setup with server reboot

I would like to start my byobu setup at a server reboot. With screen I use the rc.local and do it like this: su user -c 'screen -dmS screenname sh /home/user/start.sh' Now I would like to know how I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 pixelated screen in between login screen and appearance of the desktop

I've posted this problem here and hope to get a fix, but until now still no result, so I'm trying here too. I hope there is a Linux pro here who can help me out. I've do some searching here on this ...
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Add asymmetrical margin on LCD display?

My old laptop display is starting to break, and I have many dead pixels and other physical issues on the left side of the screen only. Of course I should get a new monitor (or ideally a new laptop), ...
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There are alternative ways to unlock the screen other than writing the password?

Can I unlock the stand-by screen with a pattern (like in Android phones), or face recognition?
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The screen is dark when start

I have just installed Ubuntu12.04 desktop on my computer. Now it has the following problem: every time when i start my computer, when the boot menu passed by, the screen will turn to be so dark that I ...
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Installation menu in Ubuntu 13.10 [duplicate]

When I try to install Ubuntu, I am unable to view the installation menu. The only thing I can see is a black screen. Are there other methods to install Ubuntu 13.10, & is this a graphic problem?
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Automatically add external display to screen in Ubuntu Server

I'd like to be able to control my laptop's (Ubuntu Server 12.04) external display over SSH. I know about the screen command, but it requires that I add the display from the laptop. Is there a way to ...
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Is there any way to make a hotkey turn the screen off?

How can I make a script (or make some changes) to allow me to turn the screen off in Ubuntu (12.04) whenever I want, the way thevscreen can be turned off in Cellphones? And how can I make a ...
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Black screen with the cursor blinking (flashing) [closed]

You might think this is duplicate, but it's not. I've searched all around the Internet and never found a solution. I might be a total Linux newbie (although I've been using Ubuntu and Fedora for 3 ...
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Display problem black screen

I have installed UBUNTU 12.04LTS on my desktop. However, during work, the display suddenly becomes black. As the cursor is moved, it starts displaying the normal background as if it is being painted ...
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Half/quarter of the native resolution on a MacBook with Retina display

I have a MacBook Pro notebook with native resolution of 2560x1600 which makes all my desktop details unreadable. I tried increasing DPI, but icons remain small, so I decided to decrease display ...
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how to disable the animation of dimming the screen when ubuntu turns inactive screen off

When Ubuntu 13.10 decides to turn of inactive screen, it runs an animation for 15 seconds long, slowly dimming the screen. The purpose, I assume, is to give an interim for human intervention - a ...
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Booting from USB HDD, GRUB2 fails to load(Black Screen) and no GRUB rescue

I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 13.10 onto a USB hard drive using unetbootin(which used extlinux as the initial bootloader during install) and have been having problems where GRUB2 isn't ...
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turn screen off by pressing scroll lock [duplicate]

I would like to change the function of scroll lock. After pressing scroll lock, it should turn off the screen (and of course no backlight). I have tried the following: have set the custom command "...
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Running a graphical application through ssh and keeping it alive

I want to run a GUI application from a remote client via ssh and keep it alive (and eventually reconnect to it) after the connection is closed. As an example: I want, from my home pc, to open a ...
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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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Setting which brightness determines screen brightness

I'm having an issue running Kubuntu 13.04 with brightness, something that seems common. In particular, brightness can be found in these 2 directories: /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness /sys/...
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video accelerator display trouble

I'm running 13.10 with Gnome-Fallback and a Trinity Radeon HD 7540 and I'm encountering flickering (among individual objects - not the whole display), screen regions being randomly shaded (in at least ...
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How to execute screen with a fixed process id?

How can i run an app on ubuntu 12.04 64 bit, with screen with non changing ID. So. if I run a program in screen, it got an unique ID like 3353. and if I run more apps in screen, i need this ID to ...
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Screen Dimmer in Ubuntu than in Windows - Haswell NEC Lavie

I just bought a new laptop, on which I immediately installed Ubuntu 13.10. Pretty much everything worked out of the box, except the screen brightness. The maximum brightness in Ubuntu is much lower ...
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How do you change the amount of time before the screen dims?

As a video watcher, I get rather agitated when my screen dims and then turns off while I am watching something. I do not want to be interrupted every 10 minutes or so and have to move the mouse. I ...
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İnterfaces exceeds the height of the screen

I use a notebook with small screen, 1024:600 resolution with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. When I try to save or open a document, the interface is exceeding the height of the screen leaving the buttons out of ...
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In Ubuntu 13.10.....Screen showing Black ,after login credentials...please reply

I am getting black screen and a moving cursor just after login page(after entering username and password).I had re-started several times but no use,please assist me. Thanking you in advance. please ...
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Whenever I boot I get Visual Artifacts, why? Is there a way to fix it?

I have a desktop with a old Nvidia 6150SE Nforce 430 and I can't boot up every time I try the system shows the desktop wallpaper and a cursor and then freezes and shows me a colorful pattern across ...
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Can't set resolution back to 1080p

I have some trouble with upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10 from 13.04. I fixed already multiple problems, but I'm getting stuck with this one. My screen resolution isn't getting higher than 1280x1024. Unity ...
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Screen does not switch off when idle

I'm using 13.04.3 LTS on a desktop machine. Whenever I lock the screen, the screen goes blank for a couple of seconds, but then shows the login screen again. It never actually switches off (the power-...
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screen keeps black in ubuntu 13.10 when it must come out of sleep mode

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 on a completely new machine, was fresh installed. After a while, while not working on it, the screen turns black, when you try to work again, you can't exit the black screen, ...
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Dell inspiron N51100 black screen after login

After a normal login screen in Ubuntu 13.10 I get a black screen with only my cursor. I tried to open in recovery mode to adjust the driver settings but that didn't work. I get an error that the ...
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How to fix the screen being to bright in Ubuntu 12.04 and up

How to fix the screen brightness and color being too bright in ubuntu.
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Sudden black screen after login Xubuntu 13.10

Everything worked fine (except for the audio widget), and suddenly, i boot and after i set my login credentials in the session manager, the screen goes black. How is one supposed to fix it? I find ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 white stripes on second monitor

My dual monitor settings worked perfectly fine until just recently. Now the resolution on the second monitor is very low and it shows white vertical stripes. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME 3.4. I ...
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HP530 Ubuntu 12.04 Black screen after restart [duplicate]

I installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 12.04. I started the machine and was able to login successfully the first time. Upon any restarts I see a black screen, then I hear the audio drum roll that is ...
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Touchpad pointer lags / hangs / jumps

I have HP Mini 210 and I tried to install Ubuntu, Xubuntu and even Lubuntu. But the problem is the same: when moving the cursor I see lags between cursor's previous position and current and sometimes ...
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[screen is terminating], but never terminates

I recently ran into an issue on my Ubuntu 12.10 server that I can't seem to find a solution for. From my server I run a couple of Minecraft servers on different ports, usually to start the servers I ...
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Full brightness and keyboard backligh at boot

I own an Asus N56VZ, and each time I start Ubuntu (13.10 and prior versions) my screen brightness and keyboard backlights reset their values to the max. Ubuntu doesn't save my settings on reboot. I ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 boots into blank purple screen after fresh install

I decided that I wanted Ubuntu 13.04 on my computer. I had previously installed 12.10 LTS, and it worked right out of the box with no problems. Later got bored of it, then formatted the entire drive ...
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How to run script automatically on each login to Unity (Ubuntu 12.04)?

I'm using dual monitor configuration (laptop + external CRT). Each time I lock my screen I need to restore my CRT screen parameters (actually refresh rate only) on next unlock. Screen refresh rate of ...
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No login screen after boot without external monitor

I've had this issue on multiple ubuntu based distros, the most recent being elementaryOS Luna. Basically, I keep my laptop plugged into a 1280x1024 monitor at home. Whenever my laptop is powered off ...
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How can I stop my Dell Inspiron laptop from dimming the screen when I plug in the AC adapter?

I'm using a Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop with Ubuntu 13 and I find that every time I plug the power in to charge, the screen brightness dims. If I go into the brightness settings window the brightness ...
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Setting Screen session name in the middle of the session

Screen allows to set a custom session name during a session startup using a -S switch screen -S your_session_name How to set a custom session name after a screen session has been created ?
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Ubuntu 12.04 displays a blank screen with no wallpaper and no refresh

My system specs: - Intel Core 2 Duo [email protected] - Graphic Card Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Operating System - Grub Tripple Boot System: Ubuntu 12.04 with CairoDock 3.0.0 and Compiz Cube activated and ...
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After upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 I get a black screen (ubuntu) [duplicate]

After upgrading my 13.04 vm to 13.10 when I run my 13.10 vm all I get is a black screen with flashing _. I can alt f1-f6 to get into tty1-6 and I ran apt-get update & upgrade but still no luck.. ...
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I have the black screen after installing ati control center

I am new to Ubuntu , and I tried to install the amd catalyst control center on Ubuntu 13.04 ,but after installing i can't do anything because it only shows me the black screen. What can I do? Please ...
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Where is the screen saver folder

I want to display my own screen saver. Where are the apple screen savers stored . I looked in the hard drive and haven't found the folder
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ScreenCloud problem Ubuntu 13.10

I have recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 and I noticed that ScreenCloud is not anymore in the default repositories, so I went and downloaded the .deb file frome the official website, but when i try to ...
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How to lower monitor screen brightness? [closed]

I'm using 10.10 ubuntu and i want to reduce my screen brightness. In windows 7 option like calibrate color is available by which i have reduced brightness, is there any thing i can do in ubuntu.
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Restore old desktop

My Ubuntu Desktop display system has been crashed after automated updates via update manager. How can restore my old version of Ubuntu Desktop?
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Laptop will not wake up after closing lid after updating to 13.10 [closed]

I tried the steps at Ubuntu freezes/crash after wake when upgraded to 13.10. None of them solved my problem. When I close the lid on my laptop, ubuntu goes to sleep just as it always has. However, ...
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What to do about unreadable grub screen

I have been upgrading my Ubuntu, from 10.04 to 12.04 to 12.10 to 13.04 in the past few days with varying degrees of success. One problem that has been constant through every step of the upgrade, ...
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