<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Is this really an issue where the rendering engine will just completely loose its screen geometry and never accept it back?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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What does the output look like from:<br>
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xrandr -q<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the warning. To fix this I'm going to
reinstall / . Hopefully it isn't a saved setting.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Brian
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 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.<br>
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.<br>
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If you want a way to suspend your monitor immediately,
create an icon that runs this command:<br>
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xset dpms force standby<br>
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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.<br>
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Brian Cluff
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<div dir="ltr">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.
<div>Maybe it has something to do with the
dist-upgrade I did the last time I run the
computer.<br>
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