Questions tagged [monitors]
Computer monitors (i.e. screens or displays). For system/application monitoring, please use the /monitoring tag.
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xrandr not changing to propper resolution
I am trying to use an vga monitor with a 1024x720 resolution, however, xrandr is not detecting that resolution, nor dos it show other resolution options for it. Its weird because when doing the live ...
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Monitor refresh rate and backlight problems
I have two problems with the monitor on linux.
First, when my monitor goes into power saving after the delay set in gnome power savings, the display is black, but the backlight stays on. I don’t have ...
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Is it possible to get separate framebuffers for displays on Nouveau?
I'm using a simple Nvidia GPU (gt730) to run desktop system on a home server. I'm using nouveau as the GPU driver built-in on the 6.9 latest kernel.
I use FBDEV (on /dev/fb0) to run the X server. /dev/...
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How to set monitor's input source without ddcutil?
I have a PC (OS - Ubuntu Server), but I haven't monitor for it, so I decided to connect laptop (OS - Ubuntu) to it via HDMI and change input source of laptop's monitor. I'll reinstall OS on my PC, so ...
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Detecting if monitor is on/off
I want to detect if my monitor is on/off. This is because I need to record my screen time as an assignment. Numerous google searches haven't helped, as they return answers saying that it's not ...
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How to change text size according to screen size
I'm using a Dell Precision 7770 laptop running openSUSE Leap 15.5 and using NVIDIA drivers and the KDE window manager. All software is up to date with latest supported versions. Normally I run it with ...
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How to increase/decrese brightness in smaller values?
Is there a way I can decrease or increase my monitor brightness level in smaller percentage values (like 1% or 2%) rather than 5% on Linux Mint? Also, I would the fix to work with my function keys as ...
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Wavy Image on External Monitor, fixed by loggin in using only External Monitor
I'm currently running Debian 12, and have tried Kali, Ubuntu and Fedora. In all these OSes, I have a wavy output to my external VGA monitor (Acer K192HQL) connected through a HDMI to VGA adapter.
A ...
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Touch screen and external monitor: a ZenBook Duo - like setup?
I am using the Steam Deck as a daily driver since some time and i am pretty happy with it. If someone is not familiar, this is a pretty beefy (for normal tasks) handheld linux PC.
I configured SteamOS ...
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Monitor Has Lines and Wrong Colours on Ubuntu
I've just plugged in my monitor to my Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 2i with Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) running Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.3 LTS, and on both Wayland and X11, it looks completely wrong, and ...
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Monitor won't stay off
I have a computer that runs both as a server, and also as a workstation, and this means that it should not sleep, but also have a graphical desktop enabled.
To achieve this, I set the following values ...
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Control external monitor which do not implement DDC/CI properly
I have an HP Compaq monitor. It works fine, except that it doesn't support the DDC/CI protocol, even when DDC/CI support is enabled from its OSD menu. Running ddcutil detect command tells that it is ...
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Dual OS (win10/Ubuntu) boot problem
I have installed dual OS Win10/Ubuntu, but I have some boot problems. My computer has a Nvidia GPU with a high refresh rate (144Hz) monitor. The monitor has DP 1.4/HDMI 2.1/Type-C interfaces. I first ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad x270 intermittently doesn't recognize external monitor
I'm running Debian 11 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x270 with only 1 desktop environment, XFCE. I hot swap this computer and several others into an external monitor. The laptop has both HDMI and USB-C ports, ...
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nvidia-settings does not load xorg.conf saved settings at startup
I tried making a /home/name/.local/share/nvidiaconf.sh file with
nvidia-settings -load-config-only
nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DP-0: 1920x1080_60 +1920+0, DP-2: 1920x1080_75 +0+0, ...
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