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Hey, got a new monitor today. 1440p 144hz. Using manjaro KDE, and its working fine at full res and 144hz, but i run triple monitors and the image double-displays onto my right hand monitor. Only the pixels from 1080 to 1440 though I believe. My other 2 monitors are 1080p. Not sure how to begin troubleshooting. Any help is appreciated! thank you https://i.imgur.com/702mbn9.jpg

This should just be fixable by setting up your Monitor arrangement correctly in the settings. Looks like your Displays overlap.
If the Plasma Settings don’t work, you could also do the same with arandr (assuming you don’t run wayland).

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theyre properly setup (afaik) and the overlay happens from my right side monitor onto the main as well… Ik my desktop is probably seeing the entire setup as one big monitor, but I need it to understand they’re separate. pic attached. Almost positive its because i have a 1920/1080 on the left, 2560/1440 in the middle, and another 1920/1080 on the right. KDE says theyre all properly arrange and resolution/refresh rate on all 3 is ok as well. https://i.imgur.com/dcOubzi.jpg

EDIT: Fixed in arandr, thank you. Had my screens overlayed in plasma, didn’t realize that was possible. I’m used to windows just snapping the displays next to each other!

I have been tasked with ubuntu being installed on an acer R3-131T-C1YF

Ubuntu screams about mmc storage.

Idk what to do help.

I guess I solved my problem in a roundabout way. I got my SSD installed, 19.10 had an error that I later realized had to do with the installer, as it was slightly different when I installed 19.04. I went ahead and partitioned it myself and it booted without issues.

Initially xine played videos perfectly when opened from the file manager. Then I tried to adjust the speed to see how that worked and it locked up and died. I ran from a terminal, opening with the player controls and got the same error as before of “surface doesn’t match size contraints (sic)” where it expects to see video at a certain size and the video is a few pixels taller and segfaults. I looked it up and others had the same problems without solutions.

So I did what I should have done in the beginning - found a Firefox add-on called Video Speed Controller which is dead simple and configurable doing exactly what I need. I can just open a file with the browser and manipulate the playback speed there, so that works for me.

I’ve got things more than 95% of the way to where they were on the old setup, but much faster and more storage. Plus, I noticed Lubuntu 19.04 already has a number of things fixed that were previously broken, so I should be content for another several months.

Anyone know how to downgrade from Fedora 30 to 29? I am having issues getting flash to work on Google Chrome

Hi guys,

Since the new release of pop os 19.04. I have not had any new updates since I have installed it.

That’s weird are you sure your mirrors and update settings are alright? I’ve had plenty of updates.

Anyone familiar with virt-sysprep? I’d like to make a template for Suse, but really hurting for examples.

Wait - Do I really have to sysprep the machine from another one?

It set to use the US servers and the three “install updates from” options are ticked

do you get any error message when updating? Are you updating via popshop or terminal?

Via pop shop, nothing has ever appeared on the screen. Pop shop always reports.

if I were to change the server and revert back, I get a message saying unable to download repository, check your internet connection.

here are the details it had generated.

E:The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu disco Release’ does not have a Release file., W:Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default., W:See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details., E:The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidiux/nvidiux/ubuntu disco Release’ does not have a Release file.

can you try using terminal running

sudo apt update
and then if no errors
sudo apt upgrade -y

Here is the output of the first command which contained errors

Ign:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu disco InRelease
Ign:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidiux/nvidiux/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/openrazer/stable/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/polychromatic/stable/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/samoilov-lex/gamemode/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu disco InRelease
Err:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu disco Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Err:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidiux/nvidiux/ubuntu disco Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Hit:10 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary disco InRelease
Hit:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease
Hit:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease
Hit:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
E: The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu disco Release’ does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidiux/nvidiux/ubuntu disco Release’ does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

try these in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu

and then

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidiux/nvidiux/ubuntu

and then run sudo apt update again and sudo apt upgrade if no errors

First command executed with the following error

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu disco Release
Error: need a single repository as argument

Sorry try this one

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu

output returned

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu
Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:~http/ubuntu/ppa’.
The user named ‘~http’ does not have any PPA

I copied and paste bliondly remove the http: from the command

got this in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu
Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:~ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu’.
ERROR: ‘~ppa.launchpad.net’ user or team does not exist.