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Half screen appears to have film on it. Acer C7 Chromebook running 13.04

Right side of the screen is not processing colors properly. Does not show up in white space but when colors deep colors occur the right side is lighter and it seems to be a bit blurry as well. I ...
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Test for monitor resolutions

I want to buy a new display device, but I don't know if it will be supported by my card because the weirder/higher resolutions: 2560 x 1080, or 2560 x 1440. Is there any method to create a virtual ...
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How to open a program as another user inside a logged display?

I'm trying to open netbeans as a different user, but isn't working. I'm running a Kubuntu 12.04 LTS with KDE. And I tried the following: Open a terminal, type su - myotheruser, type the myotheruser ...
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how to mirror four monitors with 2 nvidia cards on debian?

I have 2 nvidia GeForce GT 610 video cards with 2 monitors plugged to each one of them. I can mirror the A and B and C to D but I want them all to show A. pleas help =)
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GUI is blurred after yum update in fedora 15

Since last few days i was using fedora 15 without any issue. But after updating fedora 15 using yum update command. Here is the screen shot How to fix this issue, is there any missing package ? ...
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X “Can't open display: :0” while DISPLAY variable is correct [duplicate]

I'm not able to start any GUI applications as a root user: # pgrep -lf Xorg 1590 /usr/bin/Xorg -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-PNnJzp # echo $DISPLAY :0 # xeyes No ...
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How to setup GParted video mode in Oracle Virtualbox?

I'm trying to boot GParted live 0.14.1-6 within Oracle Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 (Extension Pack installed). The host OS is Windows 7, the physical graphic card is an AMD Radeon HD 6900. The physical ...
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Cannot change brightness after standby or logout

Laptop: Toshiba R630 http://www.linlap.com/toshiba_portege_r700-r705 OS: Mint 14, Cinnamon $ lspci | grep -i vGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated ...
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How to set the bash display to not show the vim text after exit?

My question is simple, but I am finding it hard to frame/explain it easily. I log into several Unix boxes with different accounts. I see 2 different things for user1 and user2, while editing text ...
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Display Issues in KDE on laptop at startup (it happens when I plug and unplug the AC adapter)

I have a display problem in KDE, sometimes at startup everything goes black except the mouse. It only happens in the Login screen or in the boot screen. Lilo displays correctly and once I have loaded ...
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Is it possible to have my desktop loaded before login? [closed]

I am connecting to the system with Putty (this is Windows SSH client) then running some service in interactive personal mode. For example this is a script to run freeswitch: dims@nebulla:~$ cat ...
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Fuzzy screen on startup

I recently started getting a fuzzy screen on start up when booting into Fedora. The best way to describe it is to say the screen looks like it has a H-Scroll problem - fuzzy horizontal lines. The ...
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Xlib: No protocol specified [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Open a window on a remote X display (why “Cannot open display”)? I have a script that when run independently works that needs X11 Display variables to be ...
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How Do I Shrink the Visible Area of the X11 Root Window?

I would like to make the visible workspace of my desktop fill up less space than the entire monitor while keeping image fidelity constant. Presumably, any solution would leave a black border around ...
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mpd/xine like daemon for displaying pictures?

I am looking for a daemon that allows me to programmatically display pictures under X and that listens to commands on a socket or network port. Basically think mpd or xine, just not for audio or ...
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Launching app over SSH with DISPLAY when user not logged in

After searching and searching without any luck I'm hoping someone here can enlighten me. I have a PC (Ubuntu with encrypted home dir). I wake this PC up from a shell script on my phone, the PC shows ...
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How to display xclock on another computer?

I want to display xclock on another computer. On my computer (111) I am able to ping the other computer (222) inside my home network: $ ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ...