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xorg with vesa driver: how to set 1920 x 1080

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0 I have an old PC for my parents with integrated videocard (NVIDIA) where the nouveau driver is practically crashing every day, while browsing some complex website or playing some home videos. Running latest ubuntu, but debian had the same issue. I have switched to VESA but I am unable to run it at 1920x1080 (this is the monitor resolution), but it is stuck at 1280x1024. Any idea on how to "force" the right resolution? This is my xorg conf: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Mon0" Option "DPMS" "true" HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 ModeLine "1920x1080" 2.60 1920 1921 1922 2402 1080 1081 1082 1083 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "my VESA" Drive...

VLC configuration file on Ubuntu 18.10 when installed with snap

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0 I have installed vlc with snap on Ubuntu 18.10, and the result of my search on the internet says that the configuration file for vlc should be located in ~/.config/vlc , but for me, there's no such directory on my system, so I was wondering where can I find the configuration file(s) for vlc in case I want to have a backup? Thank you configuration vlc 18.10 share | improve this question asked Jan 6 at 14:39 Farzad Farzad 101 1 New contributor Farzad is a new contributor to thi...