Monitor resoluton

Fri Jan 8 16:27:51 MST 2016

well.... maybe it has something to do with the version. I'm dowwnloading to
install 17.3cinnamon .

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>
>>> Stephen
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