> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> 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
> <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@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@snaptek.com <mailto:brian@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@snaptek.com <mailto:brian@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.
>>>
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