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). On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > 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 > 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 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 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~(-: >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: