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Sounds like your window manager is either missing or crashed.<br>
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It also sounds like you might be using the wrong driver for your
video card and thats why it changed resolution on you.<br>
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Brian<br>
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On 01/08/2016 04:16 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Nope... the reinstall didn't help any. The windows
are strange. They do not have any type of border around them nor
the 'x' or line or box (close/min/max).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Michael
Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div dir="ltr">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!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:42
PM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<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>
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style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 8, 2016
at 11:40 AM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
<br>
What does the output look like from:<br>
<br>
xrandr -q<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Brian Cluff</font></span>
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<div>On 01/08/2016 11:27 AM,
Michael Havens wrote:<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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Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:09 PM,
Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
<br>
If you want a way to
suspend your monitor
immediately, create an
icon that runs this
command:<br>
<br>
xset dpms force standby<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Brian Cluff
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<div>On 01/07/2016
09:41 PM, Michael
Havens wrote:<br>
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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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