<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/27/2016 02:43 AM, Stefan W. Kleyer wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:dff01ecd-0f38-4f8e-899d-62298c58ab0b@gmx.net" type="cite">I had a similar problem with my system. I solved it by forcing xrandr to use a higher resolution. I'm not sure, if this is a good way, but it works quite good for me. 1. Open a Terminal and type in "cvt screen_resolution": $ cvt 1680 1050 60 You will get something like this (your's could be slightly other output): <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"># 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync </blockquote> 2. Create new xrandr mode with information from above: $ xrandr --newmode "stuff after >Modeline< above" So in my case: $ xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync 3. Check the name of the output device. You get it from $ xrandr --query E.g.: <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 LVDS-1 connected 1366x768 59.99 + 1360x768 59.80 59.96 ... VGA-1 disconnected HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 477mm x 268mm 1920x1080 60.00*+ ... </blockquote> 4. Adding this mode to the output device you are using. In my case it was VGA-1. $ xrandr --addmode VGA-1 "1680x1050_60.00" 5. Setting new mode: $ xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode "1680x1050_60.00" If you do this one time, you can put 2.+4.+5. in a shell script and execute it by startup or something. I wrote my script to be a switch between laptop screen and external monitor, because it didn't worked another way. Until now it is fixed on my machine. </blockquote> Stefan: Thank you for your reply that allows me to work-around the problem. I got it to work, created a shell-script for it, and created a desktop launcher to execute that shell-script. It would be better if there were a way to execute it in the auto-start processing, but I'm not sure of how to do that with a custom shell-script (or desktop launcher). If someone knows how to do that, I would appreciate the information. In looking around on the machine (but I can't find it now on my main machine), there was a desktop configuration file, and it had an "XRandR" section, that included a "mode=" and a "command=" line. Neither line had anything past the "=". I am wondering if I can put something there that will make it happen. Any ideas? Thanks again. At least this lets us use the resolution the monitor is capable of. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Sincerely, Aere</pre> </body> </html>