Sounds like your window manager is either missing or crashed.
It also sounds like you might be using the wrong driver for your video
card and thats why it changed resolution on you.
Brian
On 01/08/2016 04:16 PM, Michael Havens 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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