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Questions tagged [plasma-tv]

Refers to a display technology often found in television sets.

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Changing Windows Media Center Screensaver

I've enabled the picture slideshow screensaver within Windows Media Center and all was good when I had an LCD TV. Now that I have plasma, I'm noticing some slight image retention where the white picture border is usually at. Is there any way to…
Tim Reddy
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Desktop displays incorrectly after screen resize in KDE5 Plasma. KDE4 worked correctly

I have a dual monitor setup. Native resolution is 1920x1080. So the complete screen area is 3840x1080. I can set up this with System Settings in KDE or with xrandr. Works as expected. For various reasons I want to scale the size of the screen. That…
Johannes Linkels
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Is there a way in Windows/GNU Linux to prevent burn-in on plasma TVs being used as a monitor?

I've got a plasma TV (Samsung E8000) that I'm using as a second monitor for my Windows 7 computer (also be interested in software for GNU/Linux). Since plasma TVs have problems with burn-in, manufacturers advise against having static images on the…
Max Burns
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How to align the Plasma TV Display connected to a Mac notebook?

I've got an oldish mac notebook (eg. not an intel based one). Works fine. I connect it to my plasma tv via a dvi->hdmi cable. Instantly it recognises stuff, displays flash on and off and finally the tv has the 2nd screen. kewl :) Problem is this...…
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KDE Plasma 5 taskbar dissappears on external monitors

I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-28-generic and Plasma 5.6.5 I am mostly docked with two external displays, and I use all three with the Laptop one as primary. I have a customized taskbar for each monitor but sometimes (not every time)…
Patrik Dellhem
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Samsung 42 plasma HDMI DVI PRoblems

I have a Samsung 42 inch Plasma which I have been using as the second monitor for some time now. I run nvidia Graphics card with two DVI ports. The plasma has a VGA port and HDMI. I have up until now been using the VGA port with a DVI/VGA converter…
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Windows Fonts and Colors on HDTV (Plasma)

I've noticed that my fonts are difficult to read and the colors look a little bit off on my plasma TV connected to a windows 7 or windows 8 computer. I've adjusted the resolution and size of the fonts, however it's very difficult to browse the web…
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Switching from 19" monitor to 42" plasma

I am currently running two 19" monitors (both DVI) and when I want to watch a movie etc on my 42" plasma I unplug one DVI (monitor) output and plug in the DVI/HDMI lead to the TV. (I also have to unplug the 1/4" audio plug from the back of the PC…
Barry Bolton
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Keyboard layouts groups in KDE Plasma

I am in the progress of switching from Windows to Linux, but as I speak four languages frequently, I found a problem with switching between them. On Windows, there is a "sub-language" feature (don't really know how is it named in English…
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Focus window under cursor manually

I have a script where I activate a shortcut after clicking a mouse button, but I need the window under the cursor to be focused for this to work. I tried sending a normal click before the shortcut, but it can cause accidental clicks. Is there a way…
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Plasma TV wrong resolution

My tv's got a native resolution of 1024x768. Windows 8.1 allow me to choose 2 values for the resolution: 1280x720 or 1920x1080. Actually, when I put VLC in full screen mode, I can't see the volume bar. How can I add more resolutions to find the…
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Very bad picture quality when connects my laptop to my 42" LG plasma Tv

I need help on connecting my laptop to my plasma TV. Here are my hardware specs: Dell XPS M1330(display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800) LG PJ350 plasma TV (display: 42 inch, 16:09, 1024x768) When I connect my laptop to the TV, the picture quality is…
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How to set lockscreen password timeout on KDE longer than 5 mins?

Settings > Workspace Behavior > Screen Locking It's not possible to set "Allow unlocking without password for" to more than 5 minutes here. Is it possible to increase this value somehow?
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file association saving not working on Opensuse 13.1

I'm on Opensuse (KDE5). For some unknown reason it's impossible to change what application should be used to open a specific file. Even if I do apply or save, after I go in the same menu, it gets the old settings. Now for instance, when I want to…
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