Questions tagged [display-settings]
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Windows 10 settings tool bar has strange shading
I have a laptop running Windows 10 64 bit (original).
When I open my settings the column or bar on the left has a kind of dark black shading at places.
It was very dark the first time I opened it ...
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Laptop monitor running on Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
I bought a new Laptop and ran into quite some issues ever since.
The biggest one I currently have is, that my laptop monitor is running on Microsoft "Basic Display Adapter", which appears to ...
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Laptop display misaligned / incorrect scaling / display bounds
I have quite a strange issue with my laptop where the resolution/alignment/scaling is incorrect when using windows (Win 10) and even during the boot splash screen / UEFI menu. Specs below:
OcUK Gamer ...
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Night Light Setting Greyed Out After Updating Windows 10
Note: This question is essentially a duplicate of Windows 10 “Night Light” and “Brightness” options not active and Night Light disabled in Action Center, but the first has no answer and the 2nd has an ...
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What are good screen settings by which I can reduce eye strain? [closed]
I play computer games. I also watch TV series on my smart phone and TV. I also often have to read a lot between every 2-3 days. Sometimes, playing games for just 4 hours a day lead to a headache to me....
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Run-time display management on Linux without X?
Is there a way to manage displays (change resolution/rotation/output toggling) on KMS-enabled hardware with a GUI-less Linux installation? As I understand it, all the driver magic that makes this ...
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Residual window shadows in Windows 10 (minor annoyance)
Running into a weird problem that's almost impossible to JFGI because I don't know the proper terms for the process.
I have a Windows placeholder shadow, like you get in preview mode that isn't going ...
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Excel: How to make the Home tab "stay put"
This is a new problem (have not experienced it before; am running Excel 2010).
The workbook opens with the File tab active.
So I switch to the Home tab to do some editing.
The problem is that after ...
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Computer hard freezes when I click battery or sound icon, or display settings
I have a 2014 Razer Blade laptop with nothing plugged in to it. I have the latest windows updates and graphics card updates.
If I click on the battery icon to try to see battery life (or the sound ...
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Display settings freezes computer [closed]
When I right-click on my desktop, then click Display settings, an empty settings window appear and my computer is frozen, hard reboot required.
I tried updating the graphics card and my Dell Display ...
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How to use a specified number of monitors in VMware Fusion in macOS
This has been asked many times before, with the solution being fairly straightforward (e.g. Settings > Display, etc). Currently, VMware Fusion 10 provides an option to use all monitors in fullscreen ...
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Is it possible to highlight a whole inbox entry, based on its category?
There is the possibility to assign a category to a mail, and as a result the mail gets a coloured rectangle:
Is it possible to colour the whole message, like this?
Thanks
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How to fix blurry text in Windows 10 with multiple monitors
I have plugged a second screen into my laptop and now the text is blurry but only on the second screen. The effect is not visible for all applications.
I am on Windows 10.
How do I fix this?
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Why is Inkscape so pixelated on Mac?
Why is Inkscape so pixelated on Mac? I have:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
And here is how I see Inkscape:
[Click for larger image.]
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icons in all of programs are very small (windows 10)
I tried several times and asked many of friends to solve this problem but unfortunately we could not.
When I open any program in my laptop, the ribbon icons very small and it is extremely difficult ...
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laptop settings after switching to large monitor
I use an ASUS (ASUSTek) ZenBook laptop running 64-bit Windows 10 Home. Usually, I have it connected to a monitor, with the Windows projection setting "second screen only", so I do my work on the ...
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Win + ~ Causes screen to switch between grayscale and colour
Currently the windows key and ~ (which I use in another application) switches the computer between grayscale and colour. This is a HP Elite tablet running windows 10 64 bit.
I have had a look in ...
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Display turns off for 1-2 seconds after disconnecting the power
My laptop is Lenovo Thinkpad T470s, Core i5 2.50 GHz processor, ram: 8 GB, OS: windows 10 home.
When I disconnect the charger from the laptop the display turns off for 1-3 seconds and then turns on ...
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How could I dim the display brightness of a desktop PC while using Plasma 5 on GNU/Linux?
I'm using Plasma 5 for GNU/Linux in a desktop PC box. I would need a way to dim display brightness, but I have absolutely no idea where to start looking for it. Whatever you come up with, CLI ...
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How could I dim the external display brightness in Plasma 5?
I'm using Plasma 5 for GNU/Linux in a desktop PC box. I would need a way to dim display brightness, but I have absolutely no idea where to start looking for it. Whatever you come up with, CLI ...
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Physical size of screen in Windows 7 display settings
I'm using Windows 7 on a laptop with a pretty small 1920x1080 screen and an external 1920x1200 screen that is much bigger physically.
No matter how I set the position of the external screen relative ...
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Parts of some programs in Windows 10 are cut off
When running some programs in Windows 10, the top and bottom of the window is cut off, and the mouse does not behave as expected. Once such program that this happens with is QB64, as shown in this ...
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How can I restore my display settings in windows 10?
A kid pressed some keys (possibly some hot-keys) while I was away. It caused the display to turn to a reddish tint.
I want to change it back to default. I don't seem to find any simple way to do ...
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Script to switch primary display setting
Given an extended 2-display setup, is there a script (Powershell preferred) that will toggle the following setting for a display?
Under different circumstances, I'd like to set my laptop or my ...
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Task Bar Settings Not Editable with deactivated windows 10
I have windows 10 x64 authenticated copy but not activated. Thus some basic features are disabled such as the customization of the settings of task bar. Is there a way that I can alter these settings ...
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What does it mean when the native resolution of a display is NOT the highest resolution?
For most displays that I had the native resolution was the highest supported resolution. However I have one display that has a different native resolution from the maximum one. Does that mean that the ...
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Two monitors of same model. What is causing one of them to be dimmer than the other?
I have two ASUS VS239H-P monitors. One of them had a blue tint on the right half of the screen recently, so I sent it in for RMA, and it appears that they gave me either a new or refurbished model ...
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Batch file to first check which screen I am using and then switch to the other
I have two monitors that I want to switch between using auto-hotkey and an IR remote. I have the IR remote running the .bat file on button press, but I can't quite figure out how to check which ...
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Duplicate Display on Windows but there is single Screen connected
When I go to display settings, it's showing that the display is duplicated to 2 screens. But there is single screen connected to this device. What may be the reason for this?
Windows 10 Enterprize
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How to enable display scaling beyond the default cap?
I have a PC running Windows 10 that has its "Size of text, apps and other items" setting capped at 125%. I need more. How can I unlock higher scaling values?
I'm talking about this slider:
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