Universal Blue•6mo ago

Desktop Mode Static

I’m curious if anyone has had this happen. I tried to connect my LeGo to my TV and desktop mode turned into this - a static mess. After disconnecting and rebooting I can use game mode just fine, but desktop mode goes straight to static whenever I switch to it. Any ideas would be super helpful!

7 Replies

antheas•6mo ago

press start + p and select to extend, probably happens due to duplicate

sethandroo•6mo ago

Will do! Wait, what’s the P button?

antheas•6mo ago

on the keyboard you just need to fix the resolution

sethandroo•6mo ago

Negative. The screen just stays all messed up. I tried Win+P, CTRL+P and everything else I could think of that would equate to start 🙃 May just have to back up my saves from the game mode and reinstall. In the future is there a way to connect to an external display and avoid this though? I don’t wanna break it again 😢

antheas•6mo ago

you just need to delete a little file to reset the resolution .local/share/kscreen alt + ctrl + f5 then rm -r ~/.local/share/kscreen; sudo reboot

sethandroo•6mo ago

Sadly nothing but the same. It seems to be an invalid refresh rate (as this used to be an issue before it was limited to 60-144). Would there be a way to reset the refresh rate? I hope? 😇

Yuki64•5mo ago

Ran into the same issue, Somehow solved it on my side:

1. I went to desktop mode
2. Waited 15 seconds
3. Press CTRL + F2 to go into a TTY terminal
4. Plugged a second screen
5. Press CTRL + F1 to go back in desktop mode
6. On the 2nd screen, I opened the display settings by right clicking empty space
7. Switch resolution to 1600x2560 (10:16) (60Hz)
8. Removed the gap between the 2 screens in the arrangement editor
9. Applied changes

1. I went to desktop mode
2. Waited 15 seconds
3. Press CTRL + F2 to go into a TTY terminal
4. Plugged a second screen
5. Press CTRL + F1 to go back in desktop mode
6. On the 2nd screen, I opened the display settings by right clicking empty space
7. Switch resolution to 1600x2560 (10:16) (60Hz)
8. Removed the gap between the 2 screens in the arrangement editor
9. Applied changes

I don't know if that's possible, but could it be prevented for the screen to switch outside it's supported resolution/refresh rate?

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