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strayobject / fix-dp-monitor-not-waking-on-ubuntu-18-10.md
Created February 27, 2019 23:18
Fix DisplayPort monitor not waking on Ubuntu 18.10

The fix

First, figure out what DP source your monitor runs on:

xrandr -q | grep DP

In my case it was DP-2 hence the command I needed to wake the screen was:

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strayobject / faster-mouse-movement-ubuntu.md
Last active July 25, 2018 17:17
Need faster mouse movement?

As usual this is neither for Mac nor is it for Windows…

Find your pointing device from a list with: xinput --list --short
List properties with: xinput --list-props <device_id_or_name>
Set the new value with:xinput --set-prop <ddevice_id_or_name> <property_id> <new_value>
For example: xinput --set-prop 10 289 1