Use for questions concerning the built-in primary display of a laptop, tablet, or other portable computer. For questions about a separate display device connected to a laptop, use the [external-display] tag.
Questions tagged [laptop-display]
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How do I know the dpi of my laptop screen
My laptop is HP 250 G2 with 15.6” diagonal LED-backlit HD2 anti-glare (1366 x 768).
Please How do I know the dpi value?
X09
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How do you find out a laptop screen panel manufacturer / model with Linux? (Samsung, LG, Chi Mei, etc)
How do you find out a laptop screen panel manufacturer / model with Linux? (Samsung, LG, Chi Mei, etc) + model number?
I've tried using this command "lshw" in Ubuntu, but it doesn't seem to have the panel listed in there.
Thank you.
Mikeweb49
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Laptop dimming display on dark backgrounds
My Acer laptop running Windows 10 has a very annoying feature: when running on battery, the LCD backlight dims gradually when displaying a dark screen and brightens gradually when displaying light screen.
This is especially annoying when switching…
Paul Lammertsma
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Will a laptop work in temperatures below freezing point?
My employer needs me to do some field work that will take place outside in temperatures up to -20C. I will use 2 Dell laptops, 1 Acer netbook and 1 Samsung netbook.
The laptops will be started and running before they are taken outside and then will…
Shane
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How should I clean these faint yellow spots on my display?
It happened two days ago. I thought I had unknowingly used my laptop without sanitizing my hands, so I had sprayed the sanitizer on the keyboard. After that, I closed the left my laptop unused for hours.
When I opened up my laptop, I noticed these…
Utkarsh Verma
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Do blue light filters actually reduce blue light?
I'm using Redshift to reduce how much blue light my computer screen emits, which is supposed to be more relaxing for the eyes.
So I wonder, if the screen is visibly more reddish, does that mean that there is actually less blue light or simply more…
Arthur
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Does a computer screen consume more power to display black or white?
Possible Duplicate:
Does it save battery to have your desktop background set on a dark color?
Is there considerable energy saving using a black background on my website?
My VAIO advised me to switch to a White Background, to reduce power…
Ankit
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Strange laptop LCD failure
Last week, my laptop display unexpectedly decided to go haywire while it was switching graphic cards (going from ATI Radeon to Intel GMA). Now the image is displayed "right-to-left" instead of the normal "left-to-right". Some of you might already be…
Federico
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Is it possible to run a laptop which can't display anything?
I have a laptop with a busted up graphics card. However I'm pretty sure that the rest of it works just fine. I was wondering if it was possible to use it as a home server and how I would do that given that I'm not able to see anything.
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Turn off the MacBook Pro’s display with the lid open while using an external monitor on OS X 10.10 Yosemite
How do you turn off the MacBook Pro’s display with the lid open while using an external monitor on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite?
All the previous methods—such as the one’s listed here—that have worked on Mavericks no longer work on Yosemite.
Does anyone…
chance
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Adjusting laptop display brightness doesn't work in Linux Mint 14
I recently installed Linux Mint 14 on my Samsung R580 laptop. The Fn-keys worked out of the box, I can switch screens, adjust volume and so on.
When I try to adjust the brightness (Fn + ↑/↓), the slider shows up and moves to the left and right, but…
moeTi
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Laptop GPU and external monitors
I have a 14" Laptop with an Intel HD 4000 and nVidia GT 620m, I was wondering if I used an external monitor, would it stress the GPU's since the external screen is twice as big? I bought a laptop and the screen was smaller than expected so I wanted…
Steven
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How to set the laptop screen brightness programatically?
I'm currently migrating to openbox without gnome session. In unity i can use the vendor keys to set the screen brightness, but in openbox I'm on my own.
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness works fine, the problem is that I need sudo to set…
user127199
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How can I safely remove my laptop's entire lid?
Short version: son uses laptop. Laptop is mysteriously broken.
Something got badly crushed in the lid. After replacing both the LCD and inverter card I'm ready to declare the display defunct.
Since the VGA out still works, I plan to salvage the…
Andy Giesler
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No "Extra Large icons" on High DPI laptop (Windows 10)
I have a high DPI laptop (3200×1800, 13" screen. Hardware is Lenovo Yoga2Pro), which I hate for these reasons.
My specific question is about the size of thumbnail icons in native Windows (10).
The "Large icons" setting in Windows
(Ctrl+Shift+2)…
BobSter2
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