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Started by Jason, October 30, 2020, 02:27:19 PM

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Jason

I'm hoping this becomes a thing but it probably won't. :D Here's a topic for posting funny or weird displays or error messages that pop from time to time. Please add to it!

I switched monitors in Linux Lite just now and this is what my desktop display looked like.
Zorin OS 17.3 installed on:
* Dell Precision 3630 Tower - i5-8600@3.1 GHz (4.3 GHz turbo) six core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, GeForce 1060 card (Zorin OS 17.3)
* Lenovo ThinkPad T480 w/ i5-8350U@1.7 GHz (3.4 GHz turbo) 4 cores/8 threads, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, touchscreen (Zorin OS 17.3)

fox

Oh my; haven't seen that one in awhile. Does it happen under particular circumstances? Have you reported it? Other than that, your Linux Lite desktop looks great! I really like the icons and the font.
Ubuntu 26.04 on 2019 5k iMac
Ubuntu 24.04 on Dell XPS 13

Jason

It happened after I switched monitors without rebooting Linux Lite. It turns out that it switched to using mirror display mode with the laptop so I guess it was just really confused. I don't think it's necessarily worth reporting. I just went into displays and changed the resolution manually and disabled the notebook display.

As for the look, thanks. I don't think I changed the defaults, definitely not the font. But I may have changed the icons. I just looked and I'm using the following settings under Appearance.

Style: Adapta
Icons: Papyrus-Adapta
Fonts: Roboto Regular 12 and Monospace Regular 11
Rendering: Enable Anti-Aliasing box checked and Hinting is set to slight
Zorin OS 17.3 installed on:
* Dell Precision 3630 Tower - i5-8600@3.1 GHz (4.3 GHz turbo) six core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, GeForce 1060 card (Zorin OS 17.3)
* Lenovo ThinkPad T480 w/ i5-8350U@1.7 GHz (3.4 GHz turbo) 4 cores/8 threads, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, touchscreen (Zorin OS 17.3)