Questions tagged [resolution]
This tag must be used for questions pertaining to the resolution of a screen. For questions about host name resolution, use the tag "host-name-resolution" instead.
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How to get max resolution from new monitor when it can't be selected in display settings
I was trying to solve an issue of my new monitor not going over 1600 x 920 when it's a 2560x1440 monitor. My other two monitors work fine. For insight, the new monitor is a GIGABYTE MO27Q2 PopOS 22....
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Is it possible to change screen resolution without a desktop environment or a window manager
I looked up how I can use commands to resize the display, but all of them seem to require a window manager or a desktop environment, for example, xrandr, but it says No display found. I'm assuming ...
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Does convert from imagemagick misinterpret the resolution- or density-related metadata of PNG?
Let's grab a DIN A4 paper sheet in PNG format from https://www.a4-size.com/download/335/?tmstv=1739899566 . After unpacking the obtained archive, we get a4-size-portrait-pixels-600dpi.png. Let's ...
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XFCE: trigger desktop's right-click "Arrange Desktop Icons" from the command line or script?
I'm trying to use XFCE with Termux on Android, and the behavior of the desktop icons is a complete mess. The size of the display is dynamic (four possible configurations when using the phone, ...
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xrandr not changing to propper resolution
I am trying to use an vga monitor with a 1024x720 resolution, however, xrandr is not detecting that resolution, nor dos it show other resolution options for it. Its weird because when doing the live ...
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Low resolution in the EFI/VGA early boot framebuffer/console (and in GRUB)
When I boot my Linux machine with UEFI and grub2, I get only few graphic modes (resolution modes) available. And both of them are really smaller than my monitor/screen. For example, the boot console ...
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Resolution stuck at 800x600 after installing Nvidia Drivers
Wanted to install Nvidia Drivers on Fedora 40 so I could write CUDA code. I'm actually going to reference this question because it's very similar; only it was asked 7 years ago but received no answers....
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Can’t set up 4K resolution on new PC after cloning Linux Kubuntu SSD from laptop with Clonezilla
SOLVED! THE REAL PROBLEM WAS MY HARDWARE: I tried running Kubuntu in a live environment through my USB and I had the same problem (and in the windows setup then as well, but I didn't notice). After ...
