Questions tagged [display]
The display tag should be used for display and video related issues. Questions about hardware issues and what display to buy are off-topic.
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Adjust refresh rate?
I'm trying to increase the refresh rate of my monitor on eOS 5.0
As other posts suggested I tried to use xrandr to adjust the refresh rate, from 60Hz to my monitors native 75Hz. According to the ...
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How to fix wrong $DISPLAY variable?
When I start the eOS Loki the laptop display is off. If an external display is attached, I can see the elementary logo flashing and then the gdm3 background image shows that the Gnome Display Manager ...
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System not detecting second monitor
after finally getting the OS to work after the login screen I'm now having some issues with getting my second monitor to work.
Nvidia drivers are installed (latest ver.)
I ran both prime-select ...
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How to scale the screen smaller?
The laptop screen is limited to 1366x768 resoluton but it's pretty large and could comfortably use at 1080p resolution. On the settings, there's only a way to scale up, but not to scale down the ...
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Use Two monitors as main monitor
My main goal in two monitors is that one of them is just a dashboard, while the other has a full-screen video. I just want to be able to use plank and start menu from both the monitors.
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Weird graphical artifacts after closing context menu
So I've just installed elementaryOS Juno again, updated everything, installed all my programs, when I noticed a weird bug, that occurs all the time.
When closing the right-click context menu, or a ...
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Can't actually turn built-in monitor off
is this a known bug? the button in the GUI display settings that you use to turn the monitors off is non-functional for me.
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openarena crashes out of game when joining game
i am trying elementary os again. i would like to play openarena. i would like to commend you on the state of your display settings. i am able to choose primary display and the game will start on that ...
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Random black screen and pointer moves all over
I have installed Juno on my Asus Laptop
Dual-Core Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @
Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
12.2 GB memory
Randomly I get black screen and the pointer moves all over the ...
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Display settings vmware workstation 15 don't work
just installed on VMware and every time I try to change my display settings, they "register" in the Display app in Settings, but actually don't change the display, even on reboot. I see another post ...
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Settings -> Displays not finding second screen
I have a NVIDIA GTX660 (dev0) and NVIDIA GT1030 (dev1) installed with each driving a screen. X configuration seems fine - the second device (GT1030 driving a 4K display) seems to work ok since it is ...
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Juno fresh install, display unknown, resolution only 640x480, GPU is Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, display properties will not open
-elementary os Loki worked fine until I upgraded my gpu from geforce 310 to gtx 1650. (I dual boot with windows 10 on separate drives.)
-I decided to wipe loki and install juno but the display ...
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False loop, on login screen elementary OS Juno
I got some trouble with version 5.1 of Elementary OS JUNO. Since many days my login screen became completly mad and won't display the desktop to me. When I'm login in the screen turn it black and come ...
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Secondary screen gets locked when a full screen program opens on it [closed]
I have a laptop (primary screen) with a connected monitor (second screen).
When some program (for example, a video, a game...) is opened full screen on the monitor, it gets locked and the image doesn'...
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Black screen on locking the elementary OS with windows + L key
I installed Elementary OS a couple of days back. The windows + L key worked fine till sometime back but when i now do the same the screen turns black and i have no other option but to force shutdown ...
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Elementary not supporting thunderbolt displays
I have an HP Elite X2 1012 G1 with Thunderbolt 3.1 (Alpine Ridge, I think).
I'm dual booting and use a J5 Create dock with 2 external HDMI/DVI displays.
The security setting for Thunderbolt is the ...
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Only starts with recovery mode (possible graphics driver failure)
I have some issues with trying to get eOS to work on a mac 7.1. I've tried with nvidia-340 as it was recommended to a geforce 320m, but xorg won't start unless it's from recovery mode where it works ...
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Backward Rotation Settings for Tablet Mode of Asus TP200S
Elementary OS seems to support almost everything on the Asus TP200S out of the box, but one issue is screen auto-rotation.
Elementary OS recognises that the screen should be rotated when flipping the ...
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Elementary OS freezes on full screen playback in any browser
I need help. I am new to linux and elementary so I'm a noob.
I have issues with playing videos in fullscreen mode on additional display (27'')
I have laptop with intel i7 hexa core CPU and graphics ...
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Laptop screen is too small - Scaling without changing external monitor's setting
I am running ElementaryOS on a Xiaomi Notebook 13 laptop, which I have connected to an external monitor.
The interface size of the external monitor is perfect, everything works fine, but the problem ...
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black screen with the dock appearing just a few instants
I'm using a MacBookPro (13 inch, Mid 2010) with a graphic card NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MN.
Elementary OS Juno starts and goes to a black screen with the dock appearing just a few instants.
With the ...
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Problem with the screen in elementary OS Juno
I just install elementary OS Juno on my Hp 14 laptop. It generally works, but from time to time I get a white or green line at the top of the screen, I think that the problem is the graphic card, it ...
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vertically stacked monitors do not line up
I run my system with the big monitor stacked on top of the laptop monitor. I can not align the monitors in the control panel so they are one on top of the other. I can only join them at the corners. ...
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iGPU monitor not being recognized
I've had a single monitor hooked up via my graphics card working fine. I recently got an additional monitor and there is no image other than the back light.
I do have iGPU enabled in my BIOS.
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Position of Date and Time on the login screen
since a few days i am using elementary os.
Since I come from Germany I have changed the date and time display to German. Unfortunately the start screen now shows the time and date so far to the right ...
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External display stuck at 30hz
My external display only has a 30HZ option...., what's up with that?
How can I make it 60?
Running Juno 5.0 on MP late 2015
It just seems to work now, I guess an update was posted :?
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Multiple monitors extended screen on all workspace
Plugged in an additional monitor
is it possible to have extended screen on all workspaces
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Does Juno Support Display scaling
may I resize icons and window elements others than just fonts withoutreducing screen resolution
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Screen real estate enlargment
I'd like more screen real estate on my 4K connected monitor,
how can I get this done?
(You can do this on the mac display setting)
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Monitor resolution not recognized
The external display's max. resolution is 2560 x 1440, but the maximum resolution I can select on the display settings is 2048 x 1152.
What can I do to use the display in its max. resolution?
System:...
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Waking from Suspend Issue
Whenever my computer sleeps or hibernates, I am unable to fully wake it up. Sure, the system seems to be running and all, but the display never returns. Just stuck with a black screen.
Currently, I ...
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Can't turn off the secondary display
I tried to turn off the dispaly on my laptop, because I'm using a secondary display and I used this guide, but it's not working. I get the error message saying
bash: eDP-1-1: No such file or ...
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how to fix screen tearing with web scrolling
As described in the title, it occurs when scrolling up and down on a web page, it occurs when watching videos. You can go on youtube and do the screen tearing test and it easily shows up on the test. ...
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Locking laptop results in black screen and won't let me unlock again
I have a new laptop with an i5-8265u processor using Intel UHD Graphics 620, 16GB of RAM, 256GB m.2 ssd and built using a Clevo chasis.
When sold I beleive it was working fine, but after a Pantheon ...
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Greeter Font and Session Chooser
On Juno is there a way to change the Pantheon-greeter font? I tried various things in /etc/lightdm/* and /usr/share/lightdm/* but nothing seemed to affect the font. gsettings didn't find anything ...
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Mixing HiDPI and LoDPI screens on Elemtary OS 5 Juno
Lenovo X1 Carbon internal 14" hidpi display (2560x1440)
Two external Samsung 27" lodpi displays (2560x1440)
No matter if I use auto, HiDPI and LoDPI the result is that if the internal screen is used ...
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Super+l and “Turn off display after…” doesn't turn off screen. It just locks the screen. Anyone else?
Locking the screen with Super+l or the Power option to turn off the screen after x minutes doesn't turn off the monitor immediately. It locks the screen and then after 1 minute it turns off the screen....
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Problem with HDMI external monitor
I am using Elementary OS 5.0 with Linux 4.15.0-46 and GTK+ 3.22.30 on a Dell G7 with GeForce GTX 1050.
When I turn the computer on with HDMI plugged in, everything goes well. However, when I plug the ...
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Top panel and dock panel are missing on resized monitor - nVidia X Server
I installed latest driver from nvidia (nvidia-390), and Iˇm using 3 external monitor (2x fullHD + 1x 4K). I decide to make 4K monitor to have resolution 2560x1440, so I setup that in NVIDIA X SERVER. ...
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5.0 Juno - There is no display on videos
I just start using elementary os 5.0 juno today and after installiation, system showed update notifications. After 13 programs updated, i opened a video and there is no display but video continued and ...
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Large GTK menus don't scroll?
Folks; I'm experiencing a rather strange issue in elementary 5 using Eclipse IDE: Usually, some of the context menus are extremely large. In most other GTK based desktops, these menus would scroll ...
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Save dual monitor configuration?
I use Elementary Os on a laptop plugged into my tv so I don't use the laptop integrated screen and the TV is the primary display.
Each time I boot the 2 monitors are used in extended mode and I have ...
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Large windows, dock bar, top bar, fonts
After installing the latest elementary OS update, my windows, dock bar, top bar.. basically all desktop went big.
i've tried updating the scaling-factor to 0, 1, 2 like it says on other questions.... ...
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Will not boot at all
I can't esc to Grub or anything. I simply get a black screen with one single '_' at the upper left hand corner of the screen.
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Full screen issue
I just finished to set up my new desktop computer (i9-9900K and RTX 2080, with 2 27" screens) on which I installed ElementaryOS.
I'll mainly use it for development, but also to play a bit (on Steam).
...
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Set turn off display when inactive to 1 minute?
The minimum I can go is 5 minutes, is there a way to override it and make it 1 minute instead?
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Terminal becomes transparent after sleep. 5.0 Juno
So I recently installed elementary Os and I've been experiencing this problem:
After I log back in from sleep state, the terminal its all transparent, except the header bar.
Moving the mouse over the ...
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Heavy graphics artifacts on elementary Videos, and Youtube on Epiphany browser
I am getting some extravagant 'infrared-camera-looking' artifacts both on a Youtube livestream and also when I try to play an H.264 coded video in elementary Videos. I tried installing many codec ...
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BUG: Display settings not applied until login
I've installed Juno release and all it's amazing, except that when I block my notebook, that have a secondary display, the display settings is lost.
My notebook is on the left side and my main screen ...
