Questions tagged [display-settings]
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Netbeans has no display on my computer
I installed netbeans using zypper install netbeans. Trying to run it, I get the "loading" splash screen which is proceeded by a small popup which asks me if I want to register my copy and receive some ...
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How can I alter my Xorg config file to fix the screen distortion I am experiencing?
I have a system running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 with an LCD display attached capable of running at a native resolution of 1600 x 900. I have configured Xorg the way I think it should work, however the ...
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Fast switching between external and internal screen
Is there a solid way of using either X directly or KDM/GDM/KDE/Gnome to quickly switch between an external screen and modify the screen layout accordingly? I'm stealing the inspiration from Windows 7'...
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Embedded linux LCD not calibrated
I have attached a new LCD to my embedded Linux device and when I run the system I found that it is shifted to the right. (the display starts from the middle of the LCD)
I found 2 frame buffer drivers ...
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How to use command line to change brightness and color?
Is there any way to change the brightness and color? Using any command line tools?
I am trying in Fedora and Ubuntu but no luck so far.
Follow up:
[command] [conneccted output] [effects R:G:B, ...
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Linux Mint Change Screen Resolution
I installed Linux mint 10.I have nvidia geforce 9500 GT.After installing nvidia-current package,my screen resolution become 800*600.There is no 1024*768 in Monitors menu.
Running inxi -Gx shows,
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How can I run a separate X session on a different physical display?
Here's what I need to do. I need to be playing a movie over HDMI to a television screen for my friends while I'm hacking on some personal projects over VGA to a smaller monitor. It's imperative that ...
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Screen brightness reverts to max after returning from `xset dpms` display suspend
I'm running the openbox window manager and using this line in my autostart.sh to control display power management:
xset dpms 0 60 0
This works nicely, causing the display to suspend after 60 seconds ...
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Adjusting Screen Size on Ubuntu Virtualbox
When running Ubuntu as a Vitualbox guest, with a Windows 7 64-bit machine as host, how can I maximize the screen so it fills up the whole monitor?
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prevent XFCE from showing display settings on laptop lid close/open
When I close or open my laptop lid, xfce executes xfce4-display-settings --minimal. I want to make that stop, but how? I found nothing in the settings under /etc/xdg/xfce4 and .config/xfce4.
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Graphical boot-up screen lost after upgrading the kernel
I used the Ubuntu 10.10 alternate install CD to install Maverick to an encrypted partition on a USB stick. This worked perfectly, but after the first cycle of updates that took the kernel from 2.6.35-...
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CLICOLOR and LS_COLORS in bash
I have the following setup in .bashrc for coloring of listings.
export CLICOLOR=1
export LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;...
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Step by step guide to setup display resolutions in xorg
The default xorg configuration file created does not allow me to set up the display resolution I want (1360x768).
The auto configuration command xorg -configure didn't create the proper configuration ...
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Enabling or disabling one monitor in nVidia Twinview on the command line, like with nvidia-settings
For some reasons, most native games as well as Wine have a problem with Twinview. So when starting SC2 I have to manually disable one of my two screens in nvidia-settings. (By going in X Server ...
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Configuring the display properties on openSuse (Gnome) running as VirtualBox VM
I just created a VM using Suse Studio and I built just a simple openSUSE 11.3 VM based on the gnome template. I have not added any other software (except for Firefox and the Kernel modules, to be able ...
