Questions tagged [xrandr]
xrandr is part of the X-windows system. Use this tag for root window re-sizing problems and solutions. xrandr is both a stand-alone program and an X-windows extension. The extension must be present for the program to work.
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Dual monitors not working - xrandr shows both
I have two monitors plugged into my PC, one of the monitors is working but the other stays blank. If I boot into Windows both monitors then work perfectly.
This is the output of xrandx -q
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dual-monitor on Linux : how to change the virtual resolution of only one screen
I am using Centos 6.3 with two screens :
screen A : 1280x1024
screen B : 1680x1050
Screen A is the main screen, and screen B an extension. The problem is, screen A should accept a virtual resolution ...
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xrandr output refresh rates are all 0.0, how can I figure out my refresh rate?
I can tell by eye that my monitor is running at 1920x1080, but I want to confirm that it is running at 60hz. However, running xrandr gives the following output:
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma ...
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Thinkad w540 docking station and Linux Mint
I have got Lenovo Thinkpad w540 and running Mint 16. When I dock the laptop into the docking station, everything freezes. I have to undock and wait until the login window is loaded. How should I go ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 uknown external display low resolution
I have fresh-installed Ubuntu 14.04 over the weekend on my Dell E6520. The nouveau driver didn't allow me to use maximum resolution for my laptop display. Switching to the nvidia (proprietary, tested) ...
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Fedora 19 XFCE screen rotation
I am trying to make screen rotation setting persist after reboot (without having to run a script on boot).
I am using the XFCE spin of Fedora 19.
I can make the screen rotate as I want it to using ...
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Ubuntu black screen
I have a problem with my HP G72 laptop with Intel HD Graphics integrated GPU while running any Ubuntu-based Linux distro. It always boots with a black screen (if booting without nomodeset option). I ...
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Is there a way to turn off one Monitor in a Multiheaded setup like dpms force off does for all at once?
I have a multi-screen computer with serveral monitors. Some of the monitors are also connected to other computers. I want to explicitly switch off the signal to one of the monitors without changing ...
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Dual-head with fluxbox
I have a laptop with fluxbox as window manager, and I'm trying to configure the dual-head behaviour, for when I connect a video-projector.
My system is AMD-optimus based, but I mainly only use the ...
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What is crtc and how many outputs can I enable using xrandr?
I'm using a Lenovo x220i thinkpad, running crunchbang linux (which uses the openbox window manager). The laptop has a DP and VGA plug on the side.
Hooking up the DP and VGA cables and running xrandr, ...
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Disable Unplugged Displays (xrandr)
I have a laptop with two video outputs that I use when I am home (HDMI1,VGA1). To enable them, I do this:
xrandr --output HDMI1 --right-of LVDS1 --auto
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
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Ubuntu 12.04 x86 64bit
Can anyone help me with my resolution settings? I can't figure out why the last command fails.
andrew@Ubuntu-TV:~$ sudo xrandr --newmode "1360x768_60.00" 85.5 1360
1424 1536 1792 768 771 777 795 +...
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Xrandr on osx not recognising screens
in relation to this question, I'm using the xrandr command in osx to perform operations on my external monitors. Unfortunately it does not appear to be recognising external montitors at all:
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Enable external monitors on W520 laptop running CentOS 6.4
Has anyone done this? I've googled around for hours but no luck. Some suggest to change the BIOS "Display" settings (to "integrated" or some other value), others suggest to use xrandr, others say add ...
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redshift color adjustment with hardware/software cursor
I'm running Arch Linux (with Con Kolivas' ck1 patchset, although that shouldn't affect this issue) and using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver, currently at version 313.26 (my card is a GeForce ...
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xrandr config not loading properly at startup from .xprofile
I'm using xrandr to rescale the resolution on a netbook (Ubuntu 12.10). When I run the following command it works fine:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --panning 1280x720 --scale 1.25x1.2
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Setting primary monitor in ubuntu without xrandr
I am running Kubuntu 12.10. I have 3 monitors plugged into a AMD Radeon 7970. I have tried switching the order of the outputs, and configuring them repeatedly with amdcccle but kubuntu always seems ...
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2 monitors, 2 virtual desktops in lxde
My computer runs LXDE over Ubuntu (they call it Lubuntu) and I experience an interesting problem. I connect 2 screens to my computer so I expect that if I have 2 virtual desktops then one of them will ...
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Error on changing the resolution of a vnc session in linux on the fly
I connect to my workstation which is a linux box(Red Hat Linux) from a my laptop(windows 7 machine) through RealVNC . When I am work I use a docking station and the resolution of it is quite high and ...
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XRandR DPI on multihead linux
I have multiple screens with different correct DPI settings. I can use xrandr --dpi X to change DPI for all screens, is it possible to set different DPI for each screen? How do I make apps ...
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xrandr doesn’t detect display ports
I have a ThinkPad T510 laptop with Gentoo Linux installed on it and I can’t manage to get VGA and DisplayPort working. xrandr -q won’t show them, so I’m guessing, that there’s a problem with my kernel ...
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How do I align the bottom edges of two monitors with xrandr?
I have two outputs that I'd like to use on my laptop:
LVDS1 – 1366×768
HDMI1 – 1920×1080
I set my monitors up like so:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output HDMI1 --auto --right-of LVDS1
This is ...
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Create intentional border with xrandr
Is there a way to tell xrandr "this space intentionally left blank"?
I have a laptop that drives its internal display at 1920x1080, but the external monitor I'm using, due to its different aspect ...
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Crop display size in linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Limit video output to a section of a display and leave the rest blank
My laptop has a slightly damaged lcd - it has a black strip on the right that reduces the working ...
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Samsung 32" LCD TV as PC Monitor, resolution problems
I have a Samsung LE32C450 TV connected to my Nvidia 7300LE via the VGA connector.
I managed to obtain 1360x768 resolution (after some work, NVidia driver, Nvidia-settings, xrandr, cursing to every ...
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Monitor receiving resolution incorrectly
I have two displays connected to a Ge-force 210 on my Dell running Ubuntu 12.04. One is using DVI the other VGA. The DVI display had a mode for its max resolution (1680x1050) which I selected. The VGA ...
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Xfce - Can't set primary monitor in xrandr
I'm using Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.6.1 (Xfce 4.6)
I'm trying to get a dual monitor setup working. I have a vga monitor plugged in and sitting to the left of my laptop.
I want to have ...
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Linux VGA Monitor plug-in on demand with NVIDIA is never detected
Whenever I plug in an LCD LG monitor via VGA to my notebook while running X it never gets detected.
As a matter of a fact there are only two scenarios that occur:
X server is started with monitor ...
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How to set custom screen resolution with xrandr (output - default)
I need to set some fancy resolution, like 700x500, 320x860, 400x400 etc. The problem is that the output of the device is not recognized, so it's set to default. But when I add a newmode to xrandr it ...
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How to make complex GUI fit small netbook screen (like when using xrandr, but properly)?
$ pitivi
Does not fit. Huge buttons, huge icons, lot of filler space in UI.
$ xrandr --dpi 45
Now only the font is tiny, but icons and spacers are still huge.
$ xrandr --dpi 90
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xrandr equivalent for Windows 7?
My old 7" Eee netbook runs Linux. I'm able to run the following command to scale what the display shows from the native/tiny 800x480 to something a little larger:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 1.28x1....
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Dual monitor setup: xrandr versus xorg.conf
Dual monitor setups on GNU/Linux are known to be great fun! After fiddling with my xorg.conf for a couple of days, I've managed to come to a point where I can get pretty much what I want (two screens ...
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Use xrandr to set the absolute position of the screen?
I am running XFCE on Fedora 15. I use xrandr to set the secondary display (HDMI-0) to be to the right of the primary (DVI-0), however it is always at the top-right. Is it possible to set the absolute ...
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Ubuntu xrandr rotate issue
I've just bought a second monitor for my PC which happens to be a pivot monitor. I've already read lots of forums related to my problem but haven't come across a solution - I have the same symptoms as ...
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Dual monitor setup in kubuntu has deadzone in between, how to fix it?
10 and have two monitors next to each other (one graphics-card, split DVI cable), they are in portrait mode and the setup with krandr was a snap.
But even though everything displays correctly, when ...
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Limit video output to a section of a display and leave the rest blank
The video projector I have to use this week projects an image too large for its screen
and spills over on every side.
Fixing the physical setup is not possible or at least unlikely for the moment: ...
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Centos XRandR Portrait
I am having a hard time getting xrandr to properly rotate my monitor into protrait configuration. Oddly you can see how the screen's image is screwed up once I do xrandr -o left however when I take a ...
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How to fullscreen application across both monitors of dual head display?
I have two Ubuntu 10.4 machines (and Ubuntu continues to hide more and more xorg.conf config such that I no longer know where to find it). One is a laptop running dual headed - DP1 is the internal ...
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In gnome, how can I configure the definition of "full screen" to make large VNC windows behave nicely on a dual screen setup?
In my corporate environment, I'm required to run a Windows machine that acquires a VNC session on a machine in the server farm. My windows machine is dual head with different resolution monitors ( ...
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xrandr changes X's orientation too slowly
I'm changing X's orientation with following command
xrandr -o left
xrandr -o normal
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When orientation is changing screen becomes black for a moment then it switches orientation.
So how to get rid ...
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How to change virtual screen resolution on Ubuntu (connecting via VNC without real display connected)?
I have an Ubuntu server with no physical access to it, only via ssh/vnc.
It is stuck on a 1680x1050 resolution and in the system display settings the menus are disabled since there is no detected ...
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Ubuntu - connecting 3rd monitor fails with "xrandr: cannot find crtc for output DVI-0"
I've got a laptop with a DVI and VGA output on the back. With everything connected it will only allow me to run 2 of the 3 monitors e.g. laptop display + VGA or DVI+VGA but not all 3. xrandr says I ...
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Two 24" displayed vertically in Ubuntu
I just got two 24 inch monitors, and want them to display vertically side by side, where the screens are placed horizontally relative to each other, but the screens are rotated vertically. I got one ...
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xrander detect only one display
i have a problem, to get a picture on my tv over VGA (and also over S-Video to SCART). I've tried it first over xorg, but without success. After that i tried xrand, but xrander detect only my laptop ...
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Triple monitor setup in linux
I'm hoping there are some xorg gurus out there.
I'm trying to get a three monitor setup working in linux. I have 2 lcd monitors and a tv, all different resolutions. I'm using 2 video cards; a ...
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Rotate screen using xrandr on Solaris 10
How do I call the xrandr command? I want to rotate my screen 90 deg. clockwise. Here is the usage:
% xrandr -help
usage: xrandr [options]
where options are:
-display <display> or -d <...
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dual screens, xrandr: get names of video devices
I have been trying to configure dual-screen with my laptop docking station using xrandr.
After some Google and SU searches, I have managed to:
xrandr --output LVDS --pos 1680x0
Which sets my ...
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