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how and when did my graphic card, drivers, monitor and xserver negotiate a proper resolution? Is there a way to get the supported list from devices?

I was trying to figure out how KDE or GNOME decides which resolution could be supported by the monitor and graphic card connected. I have 2 senario about this question, I will try to explain the ...
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How do I increase the screen resolution on my IBM System X3250 running Debian 11?

I have an old IBM System X3250 server that I'm using to run Home Assistant, etc. I have a SyncMaster BX2240 screen that I've plugged in with a VGA cable. The screen has a resolution of 1920x1080. The ...
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Display resolution

How can I increase the display device resolution in the screenshot from 800 x 600 to 1920 x 1080? I am using the windows server 2019 datacenter VM. It changes to 1920 until I log on. The display ...
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Fedora 34: How do I stop the console going blank and reduce the screen resolution on a text only console?

I have a Fedora 34 server edition connected to a TV. There is no GUI installed and I only have a text based console. My problem is that the console will blank after some time (I think a screen saver ...
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What is the max resolution for the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter driver under Win 10 Pro?

First, a bunch of preamble, then the question is 7 paragraphs down. I have a user that we recently upgraded to an Intel NUC 8 w/ the integrated Radeon Vega M graphics. The machine also has the on-...
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Force display resolution on AMD card driver for TeamViewer with monitor unplugged

We have HP microserver with AMD Radeon R5 card and Windows Server 2012 R2. There is no monitor plugged in. Connecting with RDP works well since AMD driver is replaced by RDP driver and resolution is ...
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Change default screen resolution on Windows Server 2012R2 Azure VM

When I connect to my Windows Server 2012R2 Azure VM via RDP, I have resolution 1600x900, which corresponds to my client PC resolution. However, when I run selenium UI tests on this machine with VSO ...
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Windows Server 2012 default desktop size

I am using Windows Server 2012 r2 Datacentre edition running on an Azure virtual machine and I have come across a strange behaviour that hopefully someone can help me understand. Put simply, when I ...
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windows server on vmware resolution limit

Were using a vm-ware esxi-host on our local server that runs an instance of windows-server 2012-r2. Were remotely controlling over VNC or VMware Remote Console. We want set the server resolution to ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 in AWS EC2, change resolution beyond 1280x1024

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 instance running in EC2 performing some UI tests while nobody is connected to it. I use the following script to disconnect from Remote Desktop: for /f "skip=1 tokens=3"...
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Poll domain members for their screen resolutions

Is there a way via WMI or Powershell to ask each domain member what the resolution is on their desktop? I need to know but can't go and visit each one. For bonus points, how to summarize the results ...
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Low Screen Resolution on SLES 11.3 KVM guest

I have a SLES 11.3 guest running on KVM on an Ubuntu 14.04 host. When I installed the OS, I selected 'vga' as the QEMU display type. Now that the guest is up and running I cannot change the display ...
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Transmit Monitor Screen without using Software [closed]

Is there anyway I can share my monitor screen to another monitor without any application/process running on my computer and only by using hardware/cables ,etc. I do not want to have 2 monitors ...
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Adjusting a VM screen size in Hyper-V

I am using Windows Server 2012 Datacenter. I have installed several virtual machines via Hyper-V and all is good, I moved a VM from another Server 2012 Datacenter over to my server. The VM starts ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 - Out of range signal

I have recently bought Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2, I booted from DVD, it has loaded the files and I get the Windows logo and the loading circle. Then my monitor states the message: Out of ...
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Add multi monitor option to remote desktop web access

I have a test environment for a remote desktop farm with a connection broker load balancing logins across remote desktop session host servers. All servers are built on Server 2012 R2. Using rd web ...
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Change screen resolution of Xenserver Console for a CentOS VM

I need to increase screen resolution to 1024x800 for all my XEN console. I tried to place "vga=791" at the end of kernel line the file /boot/grub/grub.conf but it seems that most of the boots ...
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How to re-enable 640x480 resolution for special purpose display on Server 2008r2?

The lowest resolution that Windows Server 2008r2 allows through the screen properties dialog is 800x600. I have a special secondary display that needs to run at 640x480. This has previously been ...
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1920x1200 or 1920x1080 full screen resolution when connecting to hyper-v virtual machine (WinXP) via teamviewer (not RDP)? [closed]

I have a WinXP hyper-v virtual machine running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 somewhere in a datacenter. I do some remote development on this machine and I would like to do so using the complete screen ...
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Where/when does a Linux system change the console display mode?

I'm installing Debian Wheezy (7.0rc1) on a box of mine. For reasons I won't go into here, I don't want the framebuffer to be used for the console display during boot (nor afterwards). To avoid this, I ...
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MDT-Imaged systems default to 1280x1024 when monitor not connected

I have setup an MDT Deployment Share at work that we use to image our Windows 7 workstations. We are using HP Compaq Elite ultra-slim desktops (primarily the 8000, 8200 & 8300 models). ...
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Windows Server 2008 User Screen Resolution

There are many users that log onto our server (Windows Server 2008 R1) remotely. There is one user in particular that is having trouble seeing her screen due to the resolution set on the server side. ...
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Fedora Linux VM guest: How to change screen resolution [closed]

I'm running Fedora Linux 16 as guest system, inside a Windows/VirtualBox host. After install the provided add-ons, only 1024x768 screen resolution displays properly; when I try to increase it, I ...
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GPO/Script setting screen Resolution to all domain

Hi I have a closed domain that I can not add any new utility/software and I would like to set the same resolution to all the computers but have found there no good way using GPO is there a another way?...
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Can screen resolution be set in Active Directory Domain Group Policy?

Is there anywhere that screen resolution can be set for the users at the domain group policy level?
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32-bit color with XenServer

How can I get my guest VMs running with XenServer to have 32 bit color depth? The computer I'm on is at 32-bit. I RDP into a VM which is running XenCenter. I can't switch its color depth away from 16-...
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Legacy non-dpi-aware application resolution scaling?

Our environment prominently featuers an outdated but absolutely mission-critical Win32 application that is not dpi-aware. It is optimized for an 800x600 display. Most of our users now have 17"-20" ...
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What is the most popular resolution in use in your company?

What is the most popular resolution in use in your company? Our is 1440 x 900 (15" widescreen). Is anyone using 1024x768 or less anymore? I'm sure there odd machines here and there but I'd have ...
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Increasing resolution in FreeNX headless server

I'm running a FreeNX server on headless CentOS machine, and the resolution seems to be locked on 800 x 600. I tried editing the xorg.conf file, but without success so far. Has anyone succeed of ...
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Easiest way to find the screen resolution of all machines on a windows network?

I'd rather not run round checking each machine individually, is there some server-side software I can use? It's a mixed linux/windows network (clients and servers) but I'm only interested in the ...
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Configure X server for a huge resolution (9000x4000)

I have to setup an X server on a linux station that can export its display (the whole session + gnome) to an external display which has a huge resolution (it's a wall of screens). The resolution is ...
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Get screen resolution from site visitors

Is there any way to capture the screen resolution of site visitors through server logs? Or do I need to track the visitor information through some programmatic approach?
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Change resolution by console

I changed my ubuntu screen-resolution and now it's everything black and I can't change it againd to the old resolution. What do I do? Thank you.
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Ubuntu Login Screen Resolution is Off

I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed in VMWare 6.52. When I login to the machine, the login screen has a strange resolution problem. Here's an example screen shot of the issue: (ugh, cant get image shack ...
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Screen Resolution Offset and Login Box cut off in Ubuntu 9.04 in VMWare 6.52

After rebooting my fairly freshly installed Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 vmware image today, the desktop comes up with the screen offset (approximately) 50 pixels to the left. So the left-most 50 pixels on the ...
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Hyper-V VM Resolution Issue

I created a Hyper-V VM on my Windows Server 2008 Standard machine. On The VM I loaded Windows XP Home with SP3 from the MSDN ISO. Everything works perfectly until I attempt to change the VM ...
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How to limit screen resolution in xorg 1.5?

I have a NFS server and a bunch of diskless clients booting from that server using TFTP. They have a read-only root partition mount from the server, and read-write /home mount from the server. ...
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Windows XP: prevent users from changing screen resolution?

I know that there has to be a way to do this, I just haven't found it yet... How can I prevent non-administrator users from changing the screen resolution? Is there a way with Group Policy? Is there ...
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Fullscreen apps on linux multi monitor setups

Whats the best / easiest way to prevent full screen apps in linux from spanning all monitors. In windows a full screen app will only take over 1 monitor. I'm using the Nvidia drivers with Twinview
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Possible to Change Screen Resolution with Script?

We've got a workstation with four monitors that is shared by multiple users. Depending on the user, the screen resolution of all four monitors needs to be changed. I'm looking for a way to simplify/...
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