Monitor resoluton

[Brian Cluff]

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 
> <mailto: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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