Monitor resoluton

[Michael Havens]

this is kinda weird..... I upgraded from Mint17.2mate to 17.3 mate. I
worked with it a little and upon my next start up the icons and everything
else was big like the resolution was wrong. Too bad the resolution could
not be changed... don't know why but it couldn't be. So I did a reinstall
of / (just 17) but when I started the computer afterwards the window
manager was not what I expected it to be. I upgraded it but that didn't
help any. I even did a dist-upgrade. If I remember correctly this happened
to me before and another install corrected things. We shall see!


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> this seems to me an issue from almost 10 years ago where X would just
> forget anything about the screen/monitor and you would have to manually
> specify that information.
>
> Is this really an issue where the rendering engine will just completely
> loose its screen geometry and never accept it back?
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>
>> Unless you are planning on also starting over from scratch with your user
>> account, any setting that is effecting you will probably carry over to the
>> new install when you copy/preserve your home directory.
>>
>> What does the output look like from:
>>
>> xrandr -q
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>>
>> On 01/08/2016 11:27 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the warning. To fix this I'm going to reinstall / . Hopefully
>> it isn't a saved setting.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When you get your monitor to show the correct resolution again, I would
>>> suggest that you never turn off your monitor, unless you also turn off your
>>> computer.  Instead, set your power management to put your monitor to sleep.
>>> If you turn your monitor off while your system is still on, your system
>>> assumes that it has no monitors at all and when you turn the monitor back
>>> on it treats it like you are hot plugging a new display on your system and
>>> configures it from scratch, hence the changed resolution.  If your monitor
>>> is asleep, it will continue to tell your computer that it's still there so
>>> your random config changes won't happen.
>>>
>>> If you want a way to suspend your monitor immediately, create an icon
>>> that runs this command:
>>>
>>> xset dpms force standby
>>>
>>> Alternatively you could hard code your monitor into the X11 settings so
>>> that it always knows it's there... but I wouldn't recommend that.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/07/2016 09:41 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> I turned my computer off and went to watch tv. I turned my computer on
>>> about 2 hours later and the resolution had changed (I think). This has
>>> happened before and a restart would fix the problem... but not this time.
>>> So I open the control panel and go to 'monitors' and it is set to 640x480.
>>> I think one of those numbers should be 1080 but when I click the arrows to
>>> select another resolution nothing appears, just the option to choose
>>> 640x480. Any one know how tofix such a problem? I run ubuntu.
>>> Maybe it has something to do with the dist-upgrade I did the last time I
>>> run the computer.
>>>
>>> --
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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