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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Brightness calibration via keyboard shortcut
When I set the brightness to the minimum it stays at zero visibility, which seems to me as a calibration error.
It's very frustrating if you don't have keyboard shortcuts to increase it again.
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Setting right profile for external monitor HP E243d
I have HP Elitebook g3 connected to external monitor HP 24" monitor via USB-C and I can't get colours on external monitor even close to what is on Laptop - laptop screen is fine, dragging and ...
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emails from gmail account not syncing
Since yesterday emails from gmail account are not being downloaded at all - I have elementary OS installed on another laptop and I have experienced no problems. Any ideas how to fix it?
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Windows Tiling in Elementary OS 5.1
I have tried to implement a solution to accomplish at least 4 windows tiling, Elementary seems to do only vertical 2 sides windows tiling as detailed here.
I tried and failed with the instructions ...
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Zoomed in when Mirrored
I am using elementary OS 5.1.4 Hera, when I connect my my laptop to an external screen and turn Mirror Display (ON) my laptop screen is so zoomed that I cant see most of the screen no matter what. As ...
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Annoying dual-screen window placement issues
Generally most things work well for me on 5.1, but I have one annoying issue.
I have an external monitor connected to my laptop via HDMI, and have it set as my primary screen (to the right of my ...
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After rearraning displays, the mouse buttons stop working
I just installed eOS and tried to rearrange the screens. Once I rearrange the displays in the menu, so that my main display is to the right and not to the left, the mouse buttons stop working.
I have ...
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DVI not working on lock window or terminal
I have a Asus monitor connected to my desktop computer. The screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 and it's connected with a DVI cable.
Everything works fine. When a power on the computer, I can see the ...
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Screensaver in Elementary OS - how to disable it?
I cannot find any information about disabling screensaver in Elementary OS. It is possible that it is connected to another app installed on my computer?
Best regards,
Matthew
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Yellow tinge to screen after installing elementary OS
I have just installed elementary OS Hera 5.1 on my 2011 Macbook Pro. I have noticed that my screen now has a yellowish tinge to it. It goes back to normal after a while so at first I thought it might ...
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Screen dimming when user inactive - how to turn off it?
How can I turn off automatic dimming of screen when I am inactive?
I was looking in settings but I coudn't find anythink.
Thank you!
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Dual monitor mode switch
I recently dual-booted my Asus Zenbook UX480 with Elementary OS Hera and I am very happy with it in general. I tried plugging in a second monitor with HDMI and it doesn't quite work as it should. As I ...
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Problem with dual monitor setup after resume
I am running a desktop pc with dual monitors. I have a 34" UltraWide as my primary monitor and a 32" monitor (extended to the right). I am also using a GTX1080 and both displays are connected through ...
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I just installed elementary OS and everything was working, but now display scaling is messed up
As mentioned everything was working fine, but then I tried mirror display and the scaling went bad. Now I can't access the setting to undo it because it's at the bottom of the window and won't fit in ...
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External Monitor and HP Elitebook 840 G5
Installed Elementary OS Hera on a HP Elitebook 840 G5. The OS is fast, stable and responsive.
When plugging in a external monitor to the HDMI port, the monitor itself (an LG 27UD58) recognizes that ...
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Bad title displaying of my files [duplicate]
help me please !
I don't know how to describe the problem. look at the title of files and tabs
Thank You .
Elementary OS 5.0 Juno
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Offset on external display
I recently installed elementary OS Hera on a laptop that previously had KDE neon. A new issue has cropped up since changing distributions - there is a strange offset on external display for ...
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Black screen of death after trying to run elementary OS on 2011 MacBook Pro
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro which has been running Snow Leopard without a hitch for several years.
I have tried previously to boot from USB on this MacBook, with no success, and I had the ...
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How to reinstall display manager, window manager, and desktop environment?
I was on elementaryOS Loki and I clicked the Update button on AppCenter which brought my elementaryOS to 5.1 Hera. After various days I noticed that any applications that are not cured for ...
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Two displays one wont turn off
I have two displays and i'd like to shut off the display on my laptop but it won't turn off. I must be missing something but I don't know what. I turn it off in the settings menu but it still stays ...
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Resolution changes after nvidia proprietary drivers installed
After installing nvidia 390 drivers I rebooted to find my screen locked to a 1280x1024 resolution, with no option to change it. What should I do?
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Multiple vertical displays problem
https://youtu.be/X5bLgpwpzu8
There is some kind of divider in the upper window that prevents the window from:
1) Dragging it up or down between through the middle of the screens.
2) Dragging it from ...
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How to fix screen disturtion while mouse over actions? [duplicate]
i installed elementary OS 5.1 on a acer aspire I3 machine with an ATI Readon mobility HD 5450 graphic chip. Now i have screen disturtions while mouse over like show in the append picture. Any ideas? ...
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I am looking to create a shortcut to put the display to sleep
When I'm running a task in Elementary that takes a prolonged time, I'd like to switch off the display until an event like the mouse moving or keystroke "wakes" it back up again.
On MacOS and Windows ...
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Unkown display causing elongated screenshot
I'm facing some problems with the display. I had this previously but I cannot exactly remember how I solved it then... Okay here is the thing:
What have I tired, didn't work this time:
https://...
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Laptop external monitor
Hoping somebody can help
I have a dell G5 5587 laptop running Hera, I have connected to external monitor via HDMI cable.
when the laptops lid is closed I can work on the external.
when the laptop ...
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Second Display not Detected
I'm running Elementary OS 2.1 Hera. System is AsRock B450M Pro4 with Ryzen 5 2400g CPU, with the Vega graphics.
Booting up, the system only recognises one display. I have two monitors connected, one ...
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Want a zoomed-in display to pan the way a Mac does
One thing I would like to make more like MacOS is the way the display pans when you've zoomed in on it, using the "zoom in" shortcut Cmd-plus. On a Mac, the display pans (moves across the screen) only ...
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Lenovo 330 multiple displays
I have a Lenovo 330 Laptop and in Win10 I run three additional monitors from a USB C hub. Elementary only sees the laptop screen and one additional monitor. Is there some way to find all the ...
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Displays failing to set a resolution on a triple monitor setup
System Specs
System:
Host: elementary-2950x
Kernel: 5.0.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Gnome Distro: elementary OS 5.1 Hera
Machine: Device: desktop
System: PC Specialist
product: Amd X399 ...
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Display issues running elementary on an iMac: black screen on boot and does not wake from suspend
I'm returning to eOs after using Freya for a while and have successfully installed ElementaryOs 5.1 on an iMac (2009 or so, believe it was 11,2) and really like the updates y'all have made!
I'm ...
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Black Screen After Hera Install?
'Try Elementary' works fine from bootable USB. However, after I install and boot I get a black screen after the splash screen.
I read about editing a line at bootup to state nomodeset, but I'm still ...
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changing/disabling color profile
I'm using a large TV as my monitor for elementary os. When I use spotify, It's too dark. In Ubuntu i could fix this by disabling the color profile through gnome settings. How can I do this in ...
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Display is blank when plugged in docking station
When notebook is booted when plugged in the docking station, all displays are used properly. When plugging out and in again without reboot in the docking station, only one screen is used, but shows a ...
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Problems with Elementary on ASUS laptop
first, I would like to apologize. I am not an experienced Linux user. However, I used to run Ubuntu Linux on my computer.
I recently wanted to try something new and fast and snappy as Elementary OS. ...
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Black screen after unlock screen
Frequently I need to lock my screen using Super+L, but when I put my password to unlock, the system presents a black screen for over 10 seconds. After that all things are ok, but this black screen is ...
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Maximize with multiple displays
When I try to maximize a window on any screen other than my primary, while the screen arrangement is anything other than Left<>Right edge aligned, windows only maximize to half screen.
see screen ...
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How to roll back a video driver from the command line?
I decided to try to install the proprietary nVidia drivers. It should have been the '390 drivers but I installed '340 instead (forgot which graphics card I had). Now, when I reboot, the login screen ...
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Strange windows border
I'm using elementary OS 5.0 Juno. When I use right click of mouse to popup some menus, there will leave some strange window borders.I can reproduce this by using terminal and smplayer.
How to ...
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Random screen corruption after changing graphics card
I've been using elementaryOS on both my desktop and laptop computers for a few years now, and have never experienced any problems.
Recently I upgraded my desktop's graphics card from an old Radeon ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
