Questions tagged [screen]
Video and resolution shown by the monitor. Do NOT use this tag for GNU SCREEN.
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Terminal always opens empty
recently every terminal I open is totally empty, with active cursor but no directory.
To keep going I always must press CTRL + C, like I have to kill process or something.
I assume it has to do with ...
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On 22.04, laptop screen dims to 0 when unplugging power cable. With my old eyes, I can't see the screen to increase brightness again
Searched for answers, and there were very old posts that gave solutions that haven't worked now for many years. I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 on a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14-API.
When the screen dims to its ...
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playing a video in halfscreen meanwhile using another program in other half screen
is there any way to play a video in fullscreen just using half screen and use another program on the other half? for example something like this left side playing video and right side in this case ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 - Won't wake from suspend
Recently updated from 22.10 to 23.04, now struggling to wake up laptop when waking from suspend on a Dell Precision M4800 with Nvidia graphics. The power button and the volume buttons light up solid ...
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Ubuntu loading problem [closed]
I turned off my computer in the middle of the UBUNTU setup steps. And now it doean't boot at all. All i see is a white line appering and disapearing on a black screen
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My external monitor randomly flickers for between a one and five seconds. Ubuntu 22.04
I am a very yellow guy when it comes to linux so please, explain in to me like I am five.
My external monitor is MSI MAG301 CR2, although the resolution and quality are on point it just randomly ...
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Blank screen after ATI radeon RX 550 update
I recently update Ubuntu and after a restart the screen is totally black.
I think it might have to do with my Radeon RX550 as it asked me something about the drivers before starting.
I tried the live ...
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Ubuntu reboots but black screen
I wanted to only get the terminal of Ubuntu but got a black screen
The normal rebooting work but after that a black screen
Os: Lubuntu 20.04 a fork of ubuntu
The command: $ sudo systemctl set-default ...
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horizontal lines and color flashing to top of screen in ubuntu 22.04
I having some problem on my laptop screen of Acer predator helios 300 since today. I am using ubuntu 22.04 since 5 months. This morning i opened my laptop and seen that my screen is splitted into n ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 screen "quick freezes" when moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. Qfter last update these fast freezes started. It happens every time I move the mouse to bottom of the screen. It doesn't matter if I use a bluetooth mouse or the mouse pad.
I'...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 - Screen flickering / glitches
I've been struggling with that for the last week. I've checked similar questions, and the proposed solutions worked only for a moment or reduced the glitches, but they didn't fix the issue. Also, I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - brightness of all apps get dimmed after login
My issue is similar to Screen Brightness 0% at login, dims at boot except it is on desktop. Screen brightness is full on login prompt screen.
Next I hear a beep sound.
Click here to listen beep
After ...
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Ubuntu Brightness issue HP VICTUS ryzen 7 GRTX
have an hp victus 15 gaming laptop (dual gpu) and as soon as I booted up linux the screen went dim. BIOS menu and hp victus symbol remains bright every time I boot it up until the distro icon pops up, ...
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Screen Readability: Overlay transparant layer
I was wondering whether it'd be possible to overlay transparent images over folders, the desktop, browser, etc.
Sort of like an image viewer, just transparent.
This question arose since I'm trying to ...
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Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ACH6H brightness control problem with Ubuntu 22.04
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I just got a new installation of Ubuntu 22.04. The screen brightness control not working. The configuration of the machine and linux distro in the image.
*** I followed ...
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Where is the screen rotate lock in Ubuntu 22.10?
Where is the screen rotation lock in Ubuntu 22.10 ?
(This prevents the display from rotating, if you rotate your laptop screen by 90°, 180°, or 270°).
I expected this to be available in the quick ...
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Ubuntu 22 home screen doesn't work correctly
My home screen doesn't work correctly, at different times right click shows a different context menu, if I add a home folder the folder icon starts flickering. Also, I noticed in the system monitor ...
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Accidentally install ubuntu-desktop, how to get MATE back?
I'm using Ubuntu MATE 22.04.1 and I had a problem where my login screen disappeared so I tried to get it back by installing ubuntu-desktop. This brought the GUI back but also replaced MATE with Gnome ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 screen green flickering Lenovo IdeaPad S145-15AST
i did use ubuntu for more than a year on this laptop
last a few days i used HDMI cable, today for a few hours i did use a new cable "longer one"
now suddenly my laptop display went green as ...
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Nvidia external monitors are laggy
I am using the version 22.04 of Ubuntu and I recently installed the recommended drivers nvidia-525-propietary.
All seems to work well on my laptop.
Running nvidia-smi detects my card correctly.
The ...
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my screen is stuck while starting?
I've tried to update some packages and when I tried to reboot, after loading it's stuck in this screen.
I'm using ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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In 22.10 my background no longer spans multiple monitors. Is there a fix?
Before I upgraded to 22.10 I had a nice background (a map) designed to span my 3 monitors. I've had to change it as this option no longer seems to be available and the background was massively ...
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Microfreezes every 10 seconds Ubuntu 22.04.2 Wayland
System:
Ubuntu 22.04.2
Kernel 5.19.0-32-generic
Session Wayland
Laptop:
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1 (Laptop is certified with Ubuntu)
Uptime at moment when the problem found:
16:47:28 up 2 days, ...
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Mouse Pointer With a Square with text UBUNTU Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
I had an automatic update and a square is chasing the cursor. It's seems to be some text really small.
Please check as follow a screen capture:
[image][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Gndg.jpg
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Ubuntu 18.04 (MSI GS66 Stealth) primary display blank, external display functional
I've an MSI GS66 Stealth laptop which came with Windows installed, alongside which I installed Ubuntu 18.04 with NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
Connecting an external monitor to my laptop through HDMI is ...
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Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 doesn't boot up if 2 screens are connected
Yesterday my PC was ubuntu 20.04, it had 2 screens connected (one HDMI and one VGA) and it worked fine. This morning, however, without any change to the best of my knowledge, the boot up failed quite ...
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recent update broke video driver
2 days ago I updated my system with apt update and apt upgrade. Afterwards I was able to boot, but the screens where just black. Enabling the tag nomodeset in grub, thus disabling my video drivers ...
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Screen blanking but not turning off on Raspberry pi 4 running Ubuntu 22.04.1 image
I am using a Raspberry Pi 4B and an HDMI monitor (since tested on both an old 4GB model from launch and my newer 8GB model). The pi is running the Ubuntu 22.04.1 Raspberry Pi desktop image from the ...
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Why is there no audio support while we use native screen reocrding of ubuntu(Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS)
So i have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, its a really good stepup from the previous versions. My only issue is ,in the native screen recording only the screen(display) gets recorded and audio ...
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Screen divided (vitually) into four color parts. with different problems
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Laptop :- Asus Rog Zephyrus g14
Model :- GA401IH (2020)
Os :- dual boot Windows 11 and pop
I installed pop OS a month ago. I was using it as a daily driver. ( ...
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How to fix black screen(background) by RDP remote(Remmina) From 20.04.4 LTS to windows server 2016
I am getting this error on the Windows 2016 server: "Your background is currently turned off by the remote desktop connection. How can I fix it?"
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Screen gets jittery. Artifacts on Screen
My sceen get atrifacts suddenly. How do i fix this.
I just updated from ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10. I am having this Issue since.
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Output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS not showing icons or anything after power failure during software installation
I was installing some software and suddenly a power failure occurred. I restarted my system and it is now showing a blank blue screen with two tabs. One of the tabs is my user and the other is trash ...
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How to switch to an external monitor when a laptop lid is closed?
There are a lot of similar questions. For example this one suggests a complicated solution with hotkeys.
Everything worked fine on Ubuntu 22.04. When I closed a laptop lid, then the laptop screen is ...
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Cannot change the display resolution size on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Got a dual boot computer with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 20.04.
Decided to boot Linux for work and the resolution became unexpectedly low (1024x768).
Display resolution size:
Apparently I have only one ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 freezes
After some amount of time working on my laptop Ubuntu unexpectedly freezes. The screen is not responding, mouse not moving, then after couple of seconds the screen turns off and back on to the state ...
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Dimm my screen light from software while keeping night light
I like night light (build-in setting in my ubuntu 20.04), but it doesn't reduce screen brightess enough.
Is there a command / tool I could use to dimm my screen further, while keeping the night light ...
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Are there any close alternatives to Microsoft PowerToys' FancyZones?
Power Toys is an open source toolbox that contains a lot of very useful tools for Windows 10+ and I use it on a daily basis at work. One of them though I really wish I could use in my personal system, ...
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Connecting two screens through docking station
I have two Quad HD screens (a Philips PHL272S4L and a Dell U2722D) and a Dell WD19S 180W docking station. I want to connect those screens to my work laptop through the docking station. My work laptop ...
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Black screen with blinking underscore after new Ubuntu 22.04 instaltion
I recently acquired a new ssd drive and decided to install a fresh Ubuntu installation on it. Upon booting the system, now that Ubuntu 22.04.1 is now installed, I am met with the motherboard flash ...
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Screen Sharing not Available in my HP Laptop
On my HP lap, I can't find an option called screen sharing on the latest ver 22.04. I have an option called remote desktop, and that is not discovered by other device. Can any one help by giving ...
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Cannot mirror screen on smart tv using HDMI cable and Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
I recently downloaded Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS onto my HP Pavilion 15 gaming laptop. I tried to display the screen on my tv using an HDMI cable, but ran into some issues. Currently, when the laptop and tv ...
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Ubuntu is opening in a black screen
Yesterday mi wife did an update and halfway the update she closed the computer. When starting up again, the screen remains black with only a "-" in the left top corner. However, if i start ...
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Multiscreen by DisplayPort
I have a Dell unit connected to two screen by Display Port. After first reboot, only one screen is working. The other displays "no DP signal". If I change the cable from one port to another ...
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When I enable "WaylandEnable=false" option in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf file to enable screen sharing 3 fingers gestures on track pad stop working 22LTS?
When I enable "WaylandEnable=false" option to enable screen sharing in google meet my touch pad's 3 fingure gestures stop working.
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Intelligent screen ruler for Linux with image edge detection (alternatiave for Microsoft PowerToys Ruler)
So Microsoft has this PowerToys screen ruler with smart image edge detection to measure distance between objects on the screen. It looks really nice. I am wondering if there is such an app for Linux. ...
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Issue with screen overeflow
I have issue with screen overflow. I have notebook and 2 additional monitors. On ma left monitor my screen overflows my resolution. Any tips?
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my computer lag after adding the option adjust for a tv for my duals screen
Recently, I have add my tv as a second screen on my computer. The problem : I have checked the option "ajuster pour une tv" (adjust for a tv) for my tv screen.
But with this option, my ...
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Why is the brightness key so often not working on Laptops?
I am not asking about a specific laptop but in general I have seen this on so many laptops. And when you Google "brightness key not working on Linux laptop" you see hundreds of posts.
What ...
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By accident I removed Desktop folder in Gnome desktop. Now I see all folders and files from ~/home on my desktop screen
I was doing some "house kipping" aka deleting some ancient files and folders to free the space on my disk. I worked in Doublecmd and somehow marked the Desktop folder. After deleting ...