Monitor Settings

I have a Viewsonic vx2270smh Super Clear IPS monitor. I am shooting in raw and have my camera set to Adobe RGB which gives you more colors than in sRGB. I want to edit my pictures in Lightroom 5 and I do not know what setting to set my monitor to? All that is available is sRGB or Native. If I have to set the monitor to sRGB then should my camera setting also be set to sRGB? I would like to have the colors that show up on the monitor to be as close as possible between monitor and printed out picture. Should I have gotten a different monitor that has Adobe RGB and if so, what kind but can't afford $600 for a monitor. Thanks for any help or suggestions

AbbyEmmy, Raws are not color images and thus cannot inhabit a color space. What you set in your camera has absolutely no effect on the Raw and it is only when you export a color image from LR that you set the color space of the exported image.
It is not true that Adobe RGB "gives you more colors." The number of possible colors in an image is determined by its bit depth alone, not by its color space. Since all jpgs are 8 bits per channel, Adobe RGB jpgs and sRGB jpgs can both contain up to 16.8 million colors. The difference between the two spaces is that Adobe RGB distributes its 16.8 million colors over a wider range, particularly in the greens, even extending to greens that don't exist in nature, although they can be found in bright green plastic toys, for example. But if your subject doesn't have that wide a color range, a portrait for instance will fit inside the narrower range of sRGB, you are better off exporting in sRGB. Also, your choice of space should be compatible with how the image will be used. Web site postings and files sent to a lab for printing should be in sRGB.

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I would like to ask for help. Recently i've found interesting issue regarding KDE monitor system settings. KDE system settings make one config file in ~/.kde4/share/config named krandrrc. When we use KDE monitor system settings, configurations are stored in file krandrrc (information like resolution, refresh rate, orientation when there are 2 LCD displays connected and so on are stored here).
I have dual monitor setup. I found this issue because of what i do by an mistake. I chosed to disable my second screen, hit save - i wanted to disable it. Than by mistake i disabled my first, primary screen and this choos was saved right on the spot (i though that when i won't acept settings, they will be restored, just like in Windows, but there were not). So, in fact, i ended with second screen disabled and my first screen disabled, so after each boot, i log in and than, my picture/screen goes off and my lcd monitor shuts itself off.
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Last edited by firekage (2014-10-17 11:57:36)

Hi firekage,
I came across your post while trying to fix a similar issue on my laptop. I don't have a krandrrc file. However, I found that if I deleted the files in my ~/.kde4/share/apps/kscreen directory I was able to "start over" and configure my displays again.
Hope that helps you out.
--Ted

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I was experimenting with screen resolution settings and somehow came up with one that doesn't allow me to get to any finder controls or to the apple icon. So I can't use my computer.
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Thanks BD. And thanks for the welcome.
I couldn't get it to start in safe mode no matter when I depressed and released the shift key. I realized that the computer is behaving as if it has 2 monitors, which is what it had when I made the mess. I tried detect displays to no avail. BUT I logged out and signed in as another user and no problem! Thus, the monitor settings must somehow be a function of a users prefs. The upshot is that I can now use the computer albeit as a different user. A potential problem may be that the original (screwed up monitor) user is the administrator. My problem is no longer so critical, though and I really appreciate the help.
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Hi! I just recently noticed that every time i switch user accounts, my monitor settings get corrupted.
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Hello Chuck!
I've had this problem too. Like you, I managed to navigate to do a restart, but nothing else would make the mouse cursor reappear.
Bruce, I wasn't using Biggy, PinPoint or any of the other mouse visibility things, simply the magnification provided by System Preferences.
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Are you referring to screen size? If so many prefer to have their browser window set to the size they want unlike PCs in which the browsers usually always fill the screen blocking out the desktop.
Why not set your site width to a size that can be utilized by all, desktops, laptops and mobile devices. Apple recommends 980 pixel width for that.
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http://pastebin.com/SiKRS1dh
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Gnome Crashes on Login after messing with dual monitor settings

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 285.05.09 ([email protected]) Fri Sep 23 19:18:19 PDT 2011
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InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
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EndSection
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Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
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Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
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Identifier "Monitor0"
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ModelName "Unknown"
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VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
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VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
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SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
I commented out below to get it in again, but it still feels shaky and unstable to log in now. Sometimes I will get the error and after a log out and login, it'll work.
#Option "TwinView" "True"
#Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
Extra Notes: I have another desktop session with awesome installed(uninstalled now) and could log into that no problem. Awesome was giving me troubles so I uninstalled it. I have 2 gnome desktop sessions, my regular gnome session(the one that crashes), and the other with no window manager(never crashed on startup).
I installed awesome around the same time as configuring the dual monitor setup.
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Update.
The crashes are to be expected now. I'm circumventing the whole thing by logging into my other Gnome session without a window manager, logging out and then logging back into my regular Gnome with Metacity.
I've noticed the tty1 sessions(not sure what's it's called) is strange. Apparently my session runs on tty8 but when I try logging in, it'll crash me and tty7 gives me a blank screen with a blinking underscore. The other tty1s work regularly. Not sure if this has anything to do with it.
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Make Nvidia-Settings monitor settings & PowerMizer stick

If i access the Nvidia-Settings program, i can configure the OpenGL and Antialiasing Settings however i wish and quit and they will permanently stick through every restart of the computer or x server.
However the "X Server Display Configuration" settings and "PowerMizer" settings, although they do apply for my current session after i change them, restarting X11 will reset them.
I want to set my two displays to clone and powermizer to performance mode.
I have both tried the "Save to X Configuration File" button in the display section and saved it to a file in xorg.conf.d/ and i also tried going to the nvidia-settings Configuration and using the "Save Current Configuration" on the default path/filename for my user (rather than root(
Nothing i've tried seems to work. What am i doing wrong or just not doing?
My window manager is a plain openbox-session.
Last edited by rabcor (2013-10-11 01:03:09)

rabcor wrote:
nvidia-settings -l
seems to do precisely nothing, and to my understanding when the drivers load (when X runs) the drivers should load the "~/.nvidia-settings-rc" which is created when i use the "Save Current Configuration" button if one exists (if not i assume it just uses some default settings). Also to my understanding "nvidia-settings -l" is just meant to load exactly that file again.
whether it actually does that successfully or not i have not tested, but the file does not include the monitor settings when i save it and i assume it doesn't contain the PowerMizer settings either since that also doesn't stick.
i seem to require a xorg.conf or a xorg.conf.d/file file with at leastthese contents to run X with the nvidia drivers. Last i checked anyways which was probably a few months back.
Section "Device"
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Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
For me .nvidia-settings-rc wasn't loaded by default. I had to write it into my .xinitrc, too.

What are the monitoring settings?

what are the monitoring settings?

hi reddy which monitoring setting r u refereing
generaly we dont need to maintain any setting for monitoring
please let me know which setting r u talking about

Someone reversed the monitor settings -- help

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Hello
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Message was edited by: Daniel W: Just clarified that I was booted into OS 9 when I caused this bug...

Hello
I tested both methods suggested. When I booted OS 9 with extensions off (which really should have occured to me earlier - boy, I haven't used OS 9 in a while), it did revert to a default 800x600 resolution - which displayed. Odd, I don't get it, it didn't display at that res before. Unfortunately, the monitors control panel would not open with extensions off. I rebooted, only to find that OS 9 reverted to the 640x480 resolution.
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Dual monitor settings on macbook pro 13"

I am using a 13" MacBook Pro (non retina display) that only has 1 thunderbolt port to connect a 2nd display. I was able to get 2 displays to work by using a mini display port to HDMI adaptor and USB to HDMI adaptor. However, I can not get the monitors configured correct. The 2 external monitors are mirrored and the laptop display is the extended desktop (I unchecked mirroring in the display settings). When I click on the primary display it puts the red box around both external displays. When I click on the 2nd external (what appears to be in settings) no red box appears on any of the monitors. Instead I see a faint line of red between the primary monitor and the laptop display.
If I close the laptop, I only see the 2 displays in settings, but they are functioning as one. When I click on the second one no red box appears around either screen.
The primary monitor is connected with the Thunderbolt to HDMI adaptor and the 2nd external is with the USB to HDMI.
I have also tried turning on and off "displays have separate spaces". Doesn't make a difference.
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Hello Templeton,
I can't see 'turn on mirroring" or 'mirroring' anywhere.
I went to system preferences, hardware, displays, and the only options are resolutions, colours, brightness, refresh rate, detect displays. Nothing on mirroring at all. this is why I'm confused. I did read about mirroring but can't find it anywhere.

Monitor Settings - Aspect Ratio

I just bought one of your computer monitors from Best Buys in Mooresville, North Carolina [#1133] with a four year extended warrantee. I bought the Lenovo - L2262 unit with the 21.5 inch screen. Monitor LI P/N: 0A46982. I paid $174.43.
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I work with AutoCAD and I need my screen aspect ratio to be 1 to 1. It is shipped with an elongated aspect ratio and I don't like that. When I draw a square with my AutoCAD, I want it to be a square and not a rectangle. There must be somewhere in the settings of the program where I can reset the aspect ratio to 1 on 1 for my purposes.
Please respond.
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Catawba, NC.
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Maso,
How is the display in other applications including Windows? Does everything appear in correct proportion?
Have you been using the system with another display previous to your move to the L2262, and noted the squares were ... square as expected prior to switching displays? What system are you using to drive the display?
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I don't know autocad, and I'm sure you know your way around it pretty well. That said, does autocad have a setting to lock aspect ratios? I found some citations in their online user guide for the 2010 version here, but these seem to relate to rendering rather than creating basic shapes.
Anything else you can tell us about the configuration and your use prior to adding this display may help draw additional suggestions from the community.
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Monitor settings problem

Hi there!
I've experienced a strange problem related to my LG monitor/Mac Mini. Occasionally the monitor becomes "jumpy", the horizontal lines are visible when I scroll over my dock and also on some animated websites. However, if I go to the display menu and set my monitor to another resolution or orientation etc. and set it back to its original settings again the problem disappears. It seems for me like when the monitor runs in a lower refresh rate. But my monitor has only one option to choose (60Hz).
I use two displays and this problem happens only with my main monitor, the second one works perfectly fine.
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Sounds like it could be DVI noise from the way you describe it. What is the size of the LG monitor you have and what resolution is it running at? Is it hooked up by DVI? VGA?
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HP Dream Color monitor settings?

Anyone using a Dream Color Monitor?
I am working on one- NOT as an external monitor- it is my computer screen only.
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