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WINE: Age of Empires II black screen problem

WINE: Age of Empires II black screen problem I installed Age of Empires II HD edition through PlayOnLinux and game launches fine, as seen on the picture below, however when I try to play a game there is a black screen instead of the game (Map, etc. shows up fine but the game doesn’t, as …

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Convertible laptop screen does not autorotate in Kubuntu

Convertible laptop screen does not autorotate in Kubuntu I have a HP x360 14a Chromebook (BLOOGUARD), and it supports automatic screen rotation in tablet mode in ChromeOS. I installed Kubuntu 23.04 using MrChromebox.tech UEFI. How to enable automatic screen rotation? Asked By: Archisman Panigrahi || Source Install the iio-sensors-proxy package, in case it is already …

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Screen not really blanked after delay?

Screen not really blanked after delay? Running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, whenever my inactivity delay kicks in, my screen seems to go blank, but it is not really black, as is noticeable in a dark room. As a result, my monitor’s energy saving doesn’t become active. I can manually set the delay with ‘xset dpms 300 …

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – yellowish screen

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – yellowish screen I tried to do in place upgrade from Ubuntu LTS 20.4 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which failed. I did a fresh install. I have Nvidia GE force GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. It was working all fine when I had Ubuntu LTS 20.4 LTS. But ever since I …

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Ubuntu 22.04.2 – Screen flickering / glitches

Ubuntu 22.04.2 – Screen flickering / glitches I’ve been struggling with that for the last week. I’ve checked similar questions, and the proposed solutions worked only for a moment or reduced the glitches, but they didn’t fix the issue. Also, I reinstalled Ubuntu, but it didn’t help. My setup is XPS 13 9300 Ubuntu 22.04.2 …

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recent update broke video driver

recent update broke video driver 2 days ago I updated my system with apt update and apt upgrade. Afterwards I was able to boot, but the screens where just black. Enabling the tag nomodeset in grub, thus disabling my video drivers showed me my graphic interface again, but it didn’t seem to detect my screens. …

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Are there any close alternatives to Microsoft PowerToys' Fancy Zones?

Are there any close alternatives to Microsoft PowerToys' FancyZones? Power Toys is an open source toolbox that contains a lot of very useful tools for Windows 10+ and I use it on a daily basis at work. One of them though I really wish I could use in my personal system, which is an Ubuntu …

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Why is the brightness key so often not working on Laptops?

Why is the brightness key so often not working on Laptops? I am not asking about a specific laptop but in general I have seen this on so many laptops. And when you Google "brightness key not working on Linux laptop" you see hundreds of posts. What is it with Linux and laptop brightness keys? …

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my screen goes black after 30 seconds of inactivity in Ubuntu 22.04

my screen goes black after 30 seconds of inactivity in Ubuntu 22.04 My screen goes black after 30 seconds of inactivity and when I press a key, it shows where it was and does not need any password. This problem won’t occur when I use it for watching videos in platforms such as youtube etc. …

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ubuntu 20.04 laptop turns snow screen

ubuntu 20.04 laptop turns snow screen My laptop is MECHREV Code-01, with AMD 4800H and 32GB memory. Recently the laptop shows snow screen after the following events: wake from sleep; screen goes dark; switch to TTY1 (using alt+ctrl+f1). Note that switching to other terminals work fine. The issue occurs about one month ago. I reverted …

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Monitor issues after kernel update 5.13.0-28

Monitor issues after kernel update 5.13.0-28 I am working on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. Today I did some software updates and after I rebooted the screen of my laptop was flickering completely and I couldn’t use it anymore. Fortunately I have a second screen …

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After today's boot, XMG laptop screen only shows noise

After today's boot, XMG laptop screen only shows noise This is my laptop screen after login. I have a XMG core 15 with a GTX 1650 Ti. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with Kernel 5.13.0-27-generic #29~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 14 00:32:30. My monitors via HDMI and DP are working fine. I already tried purging the …

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Ubuntu / PopOS 21.04 – Screen blinking

Ubuntu / PopOS 21.04 – Screen blinking I just bought a Fusion Serie from PCSpecialist and I’m having screen issue when running Ubuntu (tested 20.04 and 21.04) or PopOS (tested 21.04) built-in screen display is blinking when the mouse cursor is moving within its display area using the touchpad or a mouse if I press …

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Ubuntu 22.04 any screen recorders not working. Showing black screen only!

Ubuntu 22.04 any screen recorders not working. Showing black screen only! I’ve just installed Ubuntu 22.04(also 21.04). I used to install obs studio and Kazam to record my screen. In OBS-Studio if I select only window recording it records but the fullscreen option is not working recording only the cursor. Any solutions? Asked By: Muhammadsiddiq …

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Unknow effect in XUbuntu and Ubuntu: moving the mouse, the screen is moving around

Unknow effect in XUbuntu and Ubuntu: moving the mouse, the screen is moving around I do not know how I have just activated the (unwanted) feature. As I move the mouse, the screen is moving too all around. Is there a way of deactivating it? Unfortunately, it happens sometimes Temporary Walkaround: I just turn-off the …

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How to horizontally flip display?

How to horizontally flip display? How do I horizontally flip the display, in order for everything to look mirrored? Asked By: ikanai || Source Try xrandr -x for flipping the video horizontally, xrandr -y for flipping the video vertically. A few references: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr https://xorg-team.pages.debian.net/xorg/howto/use-xrandr.html https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xrandr.1.html Answered By: sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio

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Ubuntu 20.04 on a laptop – is there any way toturn off the screen?

Ubuntu 20.04 on a laptop – is there any way toturn off the screen? I installed Ubuntu server 20.04 on old, damaged laptop. The problem is, that I can not close the cover – this is the "damaged" part of the problem. Is there any way to turn off the screen via command line? I …

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