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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Resolution nightmare [duplicate]
I've got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th gen with a 1080p 14" display. My default (max) resolution is 1920x1080. It looks good in Elementary 5.0, although fonts are a bit too small. So i installed Elementary ...
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Issues with exernal monitor on elementary OS Juno
Two days ago I installed elementary OS and now I am experiencing issues with my external monitor. I'm using a Dell XPS 15 9560 with and LG superwide monitor.
Unable to disable built-in monitor
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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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Night mode not enabling
In Juno Beta 2 night mode worked as intended. I've performed a clean installation of the stable release, now night mode does not respond at all. Using an Inspiron 3558. I can see the night mode icon ...
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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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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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Top Bar and Dock Icons very large
I have a problem, my elementary OS Juno, it has the top bar and the very large dock icons. The screen resolution has the standard size of my notebook. See my pictures:
But my resolution have 1366 x ...
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Customization tools for juno
Anybody knows if there are any plans or third party initiative to allow some level of customization to Juno?
In particular I have a small display so I always try to maximize the usable screen. In ...
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How to retain workspace segregation across display changes?
I am moving to Elementary from a bespoke desktop on Arch, using i3. My workflow consists of having multiple windows per project, and separating the projects by workspaces.
I use a ThinkPad T430s and ...
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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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Juno beta starting up really slow, times out on black screen >3min [closed]
On MBP 6,1 2010 Juno beta boots normally at first but then times out on a black screen for over 3min, 5min originally.
I've tried this and it has significantly reduced the boot time, together with ...
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Black flickering login screen after update
After updating nVidia:
Instead of graphic splash screen with elementary logo, system boots in a verbose text mood
At the end, when XWindows starts, the screen just flickers
I cannot even open a non ...
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Display corruption at system installation
On my old Compaq Presario F700 (NVidia GeForce 7000/610M C67), display is corrupted from start. That means, resolution isn't a standard VGA one, as other distros allow installation. How could I ...
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Screen timeouts
I have an issue that after 5 minutes of not using my laptop I goes into sctreen saver and then I have to re enter my password. I cant find a setting to change this.
Thank you
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Unable to interact with lockscreen after installing bumble bee
I recently installed bumblebee to set my Nvidia gpu as default for steam.
After reboot the lock screen or any display never came up, so I booted into recovery and purged bumblebee,
Upon next reboot, ...
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Problem with desktop paring
I have a laptop that I use as a fix PC. I wired it with a cable. When I turn on my PC from standby, on the desktop I only see the mouse, the rest is black, but on the desktop of the laptop it's all ...
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Display settings lost on reboot
I have 2 monitors hooked up to my 1080. One 24" 1920x1200 and one 2560x1440 with 144hz.
But when I reboot I have to reapply the settings for the displays. This includes changing the mosaic, the ...
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Desktop not coming up & black screen after updates
I installed updates and after the restart, the screen comes up black with a blinking cursor. I can get to terminal by ctrl-alt-F1 and sign in, but all attempts to troubleshoot have failed. This is ...
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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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Lock Screen shortcut setup
Is there a keyboard shortcut that can be used to manually lock the screen? If not, can it be configured somehow?
Any pointer to relevant documentation would help.
Thanks,
Arjuna
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dock and top bar is not visible only wallpaper (loki)
Actually, i did a mistake.
I install tweaks for elementary and then I remove dock and one more from the startup(in tweaks settings).
Everything works fine but when I restart only wallpaper is visible ...
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How to fix screen tearing with nvidia?
I tried various fixes such as using forcecompositionpipeline = on (edited /etc/x11/xorg.conf, there was no option for it in the nvidia x settings) but still the issue persists. Switching to intel ...
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Can't login after yesterday's update
I boot up today and tried to login. I can't do it on the main account or guest account.
I updated the OS yesterday. But I have not installed any program recently.
I'm using the Nvidia drivers on my ...
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Login screen on main display
first of all i love your system and i dont this to be take as critique, just would love to have this issue fix.
So Im using my laptop as a dock and I work on my external monitor. I always use display ...
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Issues setting up external display
Solved:
This was solved with an update that was just pushed.
The problem:
I have an XPS 13 (9360) laptop that has an external monitor plugged in through HDMI using a Dell USB-C adapter. Going to ...
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Mouse Pointer Lag issue
i have installed latest elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki and was doing bit of searching about tips and tricks for getting tweaks but in the process got a very annoying problem.
i have a wireless mouse. when i ...
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Any ideas as to why my Desktop and Multitasking backgrounds are rendering funny? [duplicate]
Apologies if this is more appropriate for the subreddit, but my question felt supportish.
Anyway, I just stumbled across elementary (mac user since I was like 7) and decided to give it a shot last ...
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Temperature color?
I managed to change the gamma with redshift, but it change the color of the screen and I do not want it to do that function.
How do I make the color of the screen using redshift normal?
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Any app to turn off screen of a laptop?
Complete newbie here, just installed EOS for its aesthetics, it's one great looking OS,
I have always been using the screen off software to turn off my screen in windows os, is there a app like that ...
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Adjust Refresh Rate
I'm curious as to what the suggested method for adjusting screen refresh rate is. There doesn't seem to be an option under the display settings, despite being a fairly standard and important setting. ...
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The screen goes black when I suspend the laptop
Recently I installed Elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki and the laptop goes black when I want to lock/suspend it (Win+L). Then, I can't do anymore and I've to do a force shutdown.
What can I do?
Thanks a lot!
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Second HDMI Monitor Not Displaying
Today, the HDMI port does not seem to be transmitting to the external HDMI monitor I've used for more than a year. Using fully updated Loki.
I've checked cable connections. Monitor has power but ...
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question about how to feedback a bug,and I have a question about setting window
In system network proxy setting, the exception list do not have a scroll bar, and the setting window's min height depends on this list.
How can I report this bug to developers? I don't know which ...
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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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Screen doesn't turn off after firmware upgrade
I've always been able to turn the screen off by lowering the screen brightness. The last step would turn the screen off.
But since I recently did a firmware upgrade using fwupdmgr this doesn't work ...
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Wont boot up after update last night [duplicate]
Question about display. I am guessing I have an issue with driver/firmware for display. System was fine, updated last nite....turned on HP Pavilion this morning and it will not boot. Says firmware ...
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External HDMI display not detected after boot
I have a 4k laptop and 4k external display connected through HDMI.
If I connect the display, then boot up the system, it detects it just fine, and works. But when I connect it after boot, it doesn't ...
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two monitors and black screen on loki 0.4.1
I have two monitors, after locking screen and new login attept to the system both monitors show me a black screen. It happens from time to time. What can i do?
$ uname -r
4.4.0-97-generic
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No splash screen after installing nvidia drivers
Elementary OS splash screen has dissapeared after installing nvidia drivers, is there an easy way to restore it? I´ve read some tutorials for Ubuntu but they're hard to follow and results weren't ...
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Vsync issue with switchable graphics ( nvidia 630m / intel hd 3000) on elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki (64 bit)
I have tried various (almost all) nvidia proprietary drivers on my machine and vsync issue is still persisting.
Nouveau drivers in not an option as I want to SVP (https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/...
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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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First installation
I have a lot of question before my first installation of a linux distribution.
For my next job (i'll start in 1 month), i'll use a computer (with Linux). So i'll try to learn to use it before i start ...
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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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F.Lux Not Working
Recently fluxgui stopped working correctly. The service starts and there is the indicator in the wingpanel, but has no effect. After selecting the color temperature and hitting preview does not change ...
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My laptop screen has gone red even after I installed redshift and it's not going away
Previously I had tried to install redshift to provide a reddish colour to the screen during the night, but when I tried to uninstall it using purge, it was not removed and so my screen is still red. ...
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multitasking view problem after suspend
I installed elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki couple of days ago and everything seems to run fine except this strange problem:
The background of multitasking view looks corrupted almost every time after ...
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Unlock session with connected monitor when the laptop lid is closed
Recently I got a ThinkPad T460S with Dell UltraSharp U2715H for working.
I tried to work with the lid of the laptop closed and working with the monitor as the primary screen, it work great but when I ...
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Boot up black screen
During boot up I get for a fraction of a second a black screen with three lines of errors. Otherwise the system works perfectly, boots ok and operates very fast. Should I bother about those lines? Is ...
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elementary logs out when screen goes blank
When I set my power setting to blank the screen after a set amount of time when the screen goes blank it logs me out of elementary. When I log back in I have to restart my applications.
elementary is ...
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How can I change windows scaling for different display resolution? (and rotation problem!!)
I really enjoy ElementaryOS and I want it to be my everyday operating system, but I have some issues...
I'm currently running 3 monitors: one 4K, and two more displays (lower resolution) in vertical ...
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