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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 ...
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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://...
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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 ...
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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.
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Screen flicker, blink, pulse, flash

If you have an intel graphic chip, you could try comment nr 5 Screen flickering solution
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Mirroring screen

Windows+P to switch between mirrored and extended mode :) (same shortcut as in Windows ;) )
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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. ...
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Screen tearing and graphical glitches in Loki

To fix Firefox tearing, try opening about:config, setting gfx.xrender.enabled to true, then restart Firefox.
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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 ...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Too much contrast/exposure? (I think)

This seems to be a bug in Gala, see issue Tracker.
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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 --...
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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 ...
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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....
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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/...
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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 ...
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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.
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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).
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