Monitor resoluton

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 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.
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
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