Screen resolution defaults after every reboot.
I was running kde4 with compiz fusion when things went wrong. I was playing around with some different settings in the taskbar (the tooltips and whether or not to show programs on other desktops) when the taskbar mysteriously left me. As did the desktop background. Fortunately, I had already been signed in to irc and asked for help in #kubuntu-kde4. The nice folks there informed me that I needed to hit alt+f2 and run Plasma.
Unforunately for me, alt+f2 stopped bringing up the run prompt for me some few months ago when I installed compiz fusion. So I did what any sane person would do, and hopped on over to the #compiz-fusion channel. There, they informed me that alt+f2 should still work, and that something compiz fusion needs in order to handle that keyboard shortcut doesn't ship by default with kubuntu 8.04. Fine.
I don't see an easy way to restart plasma, and neither do they. I hit ctrl+alt+f2, login, and do a sudo reboot. After kubuntu finished restarting, I got a prompt informing me that kde4-window-decorator crashed. So I restarted again. And again. It kept on crashing. I went ahead and asked for help, and folks told me to do a "compiz --replace" (or something to that effect). So I did. It stopped crashing after a reboot.
But now I noticed that the OS defaulted to 800x600 no matter how many times I told it to stay at 1280x1024. Nobody on irc can decide what's the root cause, so I leave. I uninstall compiz-fusion (eliminating it as a potential culprit). I go so far as to start using kde3 again. Still no luck.
Thinking that perhaps my xorg.conf go hosed somewhere along the way, I do a "sudo dpkg-reconfigure-phigh xserver-xorg". This seems to reset xorg.conf to a sort of default setting. Unfortunately, I'd like to bump up my screen resolution and run compiz fusion again, so I reinstall the nvidia drivers using "sudo envyng-qt". I select nvidia, and let it automatically detect my card (this has worked very well in the past for my 6200). The program runs just fine, and recommends I restart. I do so.
So now we're here: I cannot get kubuntu to hold any resolution through a reboot. It reverts to 800x600 no matter what I seem to do. I've tried resetting the screen resolution using "sudo nvidia-settings", making sure to write the changes to file. I've tried using the display option in the system settings (both in kde3 and in kde4).
I'd rather not have to do something as drastic as reinstall the OS (I'm an old windows fanboy, this is what I'd do if it were m$ acting up), but I'm at my wits end. Hopefully the information I've provided is helpful. If you need anything else, I'll do my best to provide it. I know how to do a handful of things at the command line, but not much, so concise instructions should make everything move more smoothly.
I was running kde4 with compiz fusion when things went wrong. I was playing around with some different settings in the taskbar (the tooltips and whether or not to show programs on other desktops) when the taskbar mysteriously left me. As did the desktop background. Fortunately, I had already been signed in to irc and asked for help in #kubuntu-kde4. The nice folks there informed me that I needed to hit alt+f2 and run Plasma.
Unforunately for me, alt+f2 stopped bringing up the run prompt for me some few months ago when I installed compiz fusion. So I did what any sane person would do, and hopped on over to the #compiz-fusion channel. There, they informed me that alt+f2 should still work, and that something compiz fusion needs in order to handle that keyboard shortcut doesn't ship by default with kubuntu 8.04. Fine.
I don't see an easy way to restart plasma, and neither do they. I hit ctrl+alt+f2, login, and do a sudo reboot. After kubuntu finished restarting, I got a prompt informing me that kde4-window-decorator crashed. So I restarted again. And again. It kept on crashing. I went ahead and asked for help, and folks told me to do a "compiz --replace" (or something to that effect). So I did. It stopped crashing after a reboot.
But now I noticed that the OS defaulted to 800x600 no matter how many times I told it to stay at 1280x1024. Nobody on irc can decide what's the root cause, so I leave. I uninstall compiz-fusion (eliminating it as a potential culprit). I go so far as to start using kde3 again. Still no luck.
Thinking that perhaps my xorg.conf go hosed somewhere along the way, I do a "sudo dpkg-reconfigure-phigh xserver-xorg". This seems to reset xorg.conf to a sort of default setting. Unfortunately, I'd like to bump up my screen resolution and run compiz fusion again, so I reinstall the nvidia drivers using "sudo envyng-qt". I select nvidia, and let it automatically detect my card (this has worked very well in the past for my 6200). The program runs just fine, and recommends I restart. I do so.
So now we're here: I cannot get kubuntu to hold any resolution through a reboot. It reverts to 800x600 no matter what I seem to do. I've tried resetting the screen resolution using "sudo nvidia-settings", making sure to write the changes to file. I've tried using the display option in the system settings (both in kde3 and in kde4).
I'd rather not have to do something as drastic as reinstall the OS (I'm an old windows fanboy, this is what I'd do if it were m$ acting up), but I'm at my wits end. Hopefully the information I've provided is helpful. If you need anything else, I'll do my best to provide it. I know how to do a handful of things at the command line, but not much, so concise instructions should make everything move more smoothly.
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