8
votes
How can I disable the rounded display corners Gala plugin?
This was a design decision made by the developers for Freya. There are some settings for Gala (the window manager in elementary OS) that control the corner masking. You can install dconf-editor (sudo ...
- 1,250
6
votes
How to set hot corners on a second display
It seems that as of now, elementary designs hot-corners to work like wingpanel and the dock and show them only on the primary display.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1385296
https://...
- 4,939
6
votes
Accepted
Black Screen after GRUB (Windows 8.1 dualboot)
Try adding nomodeset to the boot. Here's how to do it:
Press and hold the Shift button which will show you a GRUB screen containing a list of kernels and recovery options.
Press e to edit the ...
- 76
6
votes
Accepted
NOTHING works to prevent screen locking while watching videos
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install caffeine-plus
It works fine on Freya.
- 474
6
votes
How to change display resolution
First run:
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
Now logout/ login.
Go to settings --> Display
If you have multiple displays and they are not mirrored, you can have different settings on each display. ...
- 7,867
5
votes
Pantheon-greeter login screen has incorrect resolution on external monitor
xrandr allows us to reconfigure the X server without restarting it. Let's use it to set the correct resolution at startup.
Find out how the monitors are identified on your system. At the terminal, ...
- 379
5
votes
Accepted
How do I turn off the backlight (laptop)
You could just open up the terminal and type this:
xset dpms force off
Once you press Enter to execute the command, it'll turn off your monitor instantly. This works with every X server. If you ...
- 3,236
5
votes
Accepted
Laptop + HDMI external monitor issue?
I just recreated the problem and was able to fix it by deleting the ~/.config/monitors.xml file.
Note that by deleting this file all settings for displays will be lost.
The file is in a hidden ...
- 347
4
votes
WIndows Opening Off Screen
Quick answer to your second question.
You can drag a window by clicking anywhere inside of it with the combination Super + left click.
- 1,423
4
votes
Screen flicker, blink, pulse, flash
If you have an intel graphic chip, you could try comment nr 5
Screen flickering solution
- 815
4
votes
Using third-party apps on a high DPI (Retina) display
When launching Chromium web apps you can pass the flag --force-device-scale-factor=2 to get properly scaled content on HiDPI.
Ideally you should add it to the respective .desktop file of the app so ...
- 320
4
votes
Multiple Monitors not functioning properly
(This might be a bug, but on my system, Loki's Displays settings do not naturally let users stack screens atop each other, either with the secondary directly above the primary or vice versa, though I ...
- 4,314
4
votes
Making brightness work on Elementary OS Loki with fn key
I found this: answer
and this worked for me from his answer:
P.S: I have asus too, but I got X550JX model.
- 53
4
votes
Screen mess up - VMware Workstation on Elementary OS
vmware-workstation works without problems with the root user, however, it is very annoying to open the terminal to open the program and believe that the icon is useless. I found a way to bypass the ...
- 151
3
votes
Accepted
Secondary monitor not working
Fortunately I seem to have ran into a solution for Elementary OS and felt it would be best to share it.
Open up the application launcher and search for Additional Drivers and select 'Using Video ...
- 301
3
votes
Mirroring screen
Windows+P to switch between mirrored and extended mode :)
(same shortcut as in Windows ;) )
- 176
3
votes
Laptop + HDMI external monitor issue?
Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to open a TTY virtual terminal.Then type your username and password and once you have logged in type rm ~/.config/monitors.xml and press ENTER to delete the file @joost said about.
...
- 2,763
3
votes
Screen tearing and graphical glitches in Loki
To fix Firefox tearing, try opening about:config, setting gfx.xrender.enabled to true, then restart Firefox.
- 180
3
votes
How can I have one plank on each of my monitors
You need either dconf-editor or command-line tool gsettings.
You can change the value of net.launchpad.plank.enabled_docks to ['dock1','dock2'] in order to enable a second dock,
restart plank,
change ...
- 4,502
3
votes
Cycle through all applications, across workspaces
Nope, without custom scripting, the OS only supports switching between windows in a workspace ("Switch Windows" in Settings > Keyboard) and switching between workspaces (org.pantheon.desktop.gala....
- 4,314
3
votes
Log-in screen shows up on secondary monitor
I was able to fix this by setting the correct primary monitor via LightDM.
LightDM is elementaryOS's lock screen (aka pantheon-greeter)
First you need to find the name for your primary monitor using ...
3
votes
My laptop screen has gone red even after I installed redshift and it's not going away
Even though you've removed Redshift, it seems it has "permanently" altered your display settings. Try running:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma 0.9:0.9:0.9
eDP-1 is the name of my monitor, yours may ...
- 2,310
3
votes
3
votes
Monitor settings do not work. Cannot disable integrated screen of the laptop
default integrated monitor is not always LVDS-1
first you should get overview of detected displays and their aliases by command
xrandr | grep " connected " | awk '{ print$1 }'
then cast
xrandr --...
- 51
3
votes
how to fix bug in the windows of elementary os
This is a known issue in Elementary OS due to their somewhat non-standard way of applying window decorations. Fortunately, there is a fix, but it must be applied on a per-application basis. In fact on ...
- 357
3
votes
Accepted
screen flip issue with Juno 5.0 on HP 840 G1
If this sudo systemctl stop iio-sensor-proxy.service works temporarily for you, then disable it so next time you reboot, it will not load
To disable it:
sudo systemctl disable iio-sensor-proxy....
- 1,972
3
votes
Accepted
Can't un-mirror display for dual monitors - Juno
OK - After digging around I found the Windows-P key on the keyboard somehow should it lose. This solution was buried in the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/3kohhd/...
- 51
3
votes
Accepted
Is brightness control supposed to work on desktop systems / external displays?
This is not specific to a elementary. External monitors configurations are managed by themselves. You can control your laptops brightness because the monitor is directly managed by your laptops ...
- 46
2
votes
Accepted
How do I change my display brightness?
I've fix the problem: I had to change my brightness in Windows. Now all is normal. Thanks for the help.
- 81
2
votes
Cannot install due to screen size
Hit the key combination Alt + F2 that will open your applications menu. Once it is open, you can type in the command you need (pantheon-terminal, or switchboard).
- 1,423
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible