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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Full HD Display at 14" : GUI elements too small
Got an notebook with Full HD resolution on 14". Now i got the problem that the GUI and all elements are too small to work with them properly.
Like in windows I'd like to set the scaling factor to 1.25 ...
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Laptop + HDMI external monitor issue?
I've reinstalled my laptop yesterday and decided to give Elementary another shot. Everything's working great and I'm loving it but now I have a big issue.
I connected the laptop via HDMI to an ...
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Pantheon-greeter login screen has incorrect resolution on external monitor
Laptop: Lenovo T530
External VGA monitor: LG Flatron E2051
The LG monitor is set as primary. The login screen shows on both the laptop monitor and the external monitor. The resolution of the laptop ...
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Unable to fullscreen video on second monitor
I can't run any fullscreen video on my second monitor. I tried with youtube on google chrome, netflix on firefox and vlc.
Any ideas on why?
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How can I have one plank on each of my monitors
In my freya setup, I had 2 planks, one for each of my monitors. I accomplished this by using the settings file in ~/.config/plank/dock[n]. This file is now missing. Is there any way to create another ...
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How to reduce the brightness of a desktop pc?
I can see the option to reduce the brightness of the screen on my laptop but not on my desktop. Is there a way to adjust this on my pc?
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Loki - MBPr 15 - Screen Brightness doesn't work
loving the new OS. Just installed Loki today and have a problem with screen brightness. My screen is at full brightness, which is a pain at night.
I have a MacBook Pro late 2013 11,3 with dual nvidia,...
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Multiple DPi Screens on Loki
I have a touchscreen Dell XPS 9550 and an external 27" Dell screen.
How can I make sure the external monitor doesn't scale everything up as it currently is by 2x?
The XPS is HiDPI whilst the screen ...
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How to duplicate the taskbar on the second monitor on Loki? [duplicate]
There are instructions how to do it previous versions of elementary OS but not for Loki. There is no setting file in the /home/.config/dock1 folder to edit. My monitors are not mirrored, they are ...
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Black screen when try to lock screen
I don't know why I get a black screen when I try to lock the screen (super + L), after a while it shows normal, the wallpaper and the option to unlock with my password, but I wonder why I get this ...
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How to change display resolution
How do I change the display resolution which has only one setting 640 x 480 to settings that will fit my laptop?
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Monitor settings do not work. Cannot disable integrated screen of the laptop
In monitor settings at System settings, after re-ordering the screens correctly, if I want to disable the internal screen, even after disabling it the laptop screen will still be on and show Pantheon. ...
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How can I disable the rounded display corners Gala plugin?
At all 4 corners of my screen there are rounded corners, but I want to use my screen normally and use all pixels I have. Is there any way to configure this?
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Multiple Monitors not functioning properly
I have an external monitor attached to my laptop via HDMI. The monitor is mounted above my laptop so they are positioned in a vertical format. If my laptop is the primary screen, then I can't drag ...
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Black Screen after GRUB (Windows 8.1 dualboot)
Good night, people.
Yesterday I was messing around to install elementary OS Freya and dualbooting with Windows 8.1. Before installing elementary OS I had Ubuntu 14.04 and W8.1 side by side perfectly, ...
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Open Broadcaster Software and Shutter only capturing the background (eOS Freya) [closed]
Ever since I installed elementary OS, I couldn't get Open Broadcaster Software and Shutter working properly.
They only capture the background. When asked Shutter to capture the wingpanel, it captures ...
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How do I change my display brightness?
I'm using elementary OS Freya installed as a dual boot. Since installing everything was okay. Suddenly, the screen is very dark. With my F-keys I can not control the brightness. If I use my big screen ...
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Juno Display Scaling Issues
Just installed Juno. Overall a great job, elementary team should be really proud of their work!
I'm having some issues with display scaling. I have a Dell XPS 13 (3200 x 1800) and two external ...
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Screen flicker, blink, pulse, flash [closed]
Anyone experiencing random screen flicker, blink, pulse, flashing when on single and dual monitor, or opening multiple windows at once?
OS & VERSION
elementary OS 0.3 Freya (64-bit)
HARDWARE
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Cycle through all applications, across workspaces
I am running Loki with 2 monitors. I have workspaces only on my primary monitor.
Also cycling through opened applications with Alt+Tab, I can only cycle through application on that workspace: Is ...
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Screen mess up - VMware Workstation on Elementary OS
i have this problem and i can't figure it out how can i resolve it.
Maybe it's a Elementary OS... i don't know.
I running VMware Workstation (Trial version) on my Elementary OS (0.4.1 Loki), and ...
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How to adjust display colors in elementary OS
How can I adjust the display color on elementary OS? They only offer predefined profiles that I can set my monitor to, but I can't calibrate any of them. I already have gnome color manager and icc ...
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How Do I Set HiDPI Scaling for individual displays on elementary OS Loki?
There have been a lot of questions that are similar in nature, but none can truly address the Issues I've been having. I have a Dell XPS 15 9550 and have pretty much all of the hardware on it ...
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Any way to make elementary better on low DPI screens?
I have installed elementary on a very old laptop with a very low resolution (1024x800). Some of the windows are cut off at the bottom so I can't access them. Here are some screenshots:
I have tried ...
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Too much contrast/exposure? (I think)
So after the last update a few days ago I noticed that everything just had too much contrast (or exposure, I'm not sure), the text also looks weird and it's been a pain to look at. What do you guys ...
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screen flip issue with Juno 5.0 on HP 840 G1
So i just recently purchased an HP 840 G2 and decided to make the switch to Elementary OS along with the purchase.
Running into an issue with the screen constantly rotating when the laptop is moved.
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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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How can I determine maximum supported display resolution?
I have laptop with:
Dual-Core Intel i5 CPU (https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/43544/intel-core-i5540m-processor-3m-cache-2-53-ghz.html)
and I would like to determine maximum ...
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How to add 1920x1080 Display option and make it survive restart
I have elementary OS 5.1.5 Hera installed in VirtualBox 6.1.10. The display size 1920x1080 is not offered in the display settings. I have done the following to temporarily add the option.
In terminal ...
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Keyboard randomly freezes while typing
While typing there are times where my keyboard randomly freezes and repeats the key over and over again. At that point, my only option is to manually hit the power button in order to restart. The ...
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Firefox 49.0 doesn't show words in italics on Wikipedia
I have encountered a weird problem with the recent version of Mozilla Firefox (49.0) on Loki. There seems to be a bug when displaying Wikipedia pages - words in italics are simply left out. See e.g. ...
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Any support for Ryzen 2200g iGPU?
I wanted to try the OS so I downloaded the latest version. But when it boots up, I noticed that my screen is split in two and the bottom half was stretched. Is there a fix for this?
I am using AMD ...
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Second monitor doesn't connect
I'm running Elementary Os Loki 0.4.1. I wanna connect another monitor to my laptop, but my OS doesn't recognize it. In settings it doesn't even detect that I have another monitor connected (via HDMI).
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How do I fix/calibrate my screen colors?
(x-post from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/5qy9y9/how_do_i_fixcalibrate_my_screen_colors/)
I just switched to elementary yesterday and I absolutely love it. There's a problem,...
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