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This is basically the same question as How to set a custom resolution? But that one is old and never got a solution it seems. And I'm now on Kubuntu 16.04.

So I have the same problem, I tried to add a new resolution using xrandr, this is what I did:

cvt 1920 1080 60
Output:
# 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz
Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

xrandr --addmode DP-4 "1920x1080_60.00"
Output:
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  18 (RRAddOutputMode)
  Serial number of failed request:  41
  Current serial number in output stream:  42

And this is the output from "xrandr":

xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 16384 x 16384
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 connected primary 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 346mm x 194mm    3840x2160     60.00*+
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-6 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1920x1080_60.00 (0x260) 173.000MHz -HSync +VSync
    h: width  1920 start 2048 end 2248 total 2576 skew    0 clock  67.16KHz
    v: height 1080 start 1083 end 1088 total 1120           clock  59.96Hz

I'm on a Lenovo p50 laptop, having disabled the intel VGA card and using only the Nvidia card, using Nvidia drivers.

I'm having trouble fixing my locale settings. A similar question has been posted earlier here:

How do I fix my locale issue?

But it proved unhelpful. My problem is not that the locale is not installed on my system, as most answers seem to suggest. Details:

$ locale-gen "nb_NO.UTF-8"
Generating locales...
  nb_NO.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
$ update-locale LC_ALL="nb_NO.UTF-8"
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = "en",
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LC_PAPER = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_ADDRESS = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_MONETARY = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_NUMERIC = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_TELEPHONE = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_TIME = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LC_NAME = "en_NO.UTF-8",
    LANG = "en_NO.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I am guessing my problem is related to either KDE or having a different OS language than my local language (I want everything to be in english, but have norwegian keyboard settings, currency etc).

I think this problem arose after changing some settings in the system settings dialog a while back, bug?

I have a similar problem as this post: How do I turn off the screen saver using the command line?

However, these new commands (and likewise if I set the options from the GUI) only seem to work if I am actually normally logged in to X.

I am using an XBMC-only desktop session, and when I type this command:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled

I get "true" (which explains why it keeps going blank after 10 mins), but when I type this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false

I get the following:

** (process:4909): WARNING **: Command line 'dbus-launch --autolaunch=b3ac84dfb4159464a026d84900000006 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n

Is there any way of altering this setting system wide?

Is it possible to specify a desktop resolution for the built-in ubuntu 11.10 vnc server? It defaults to 640x480 when I have no monitor connected (headless), and I can't find a way to change it. Does it have any command line parameters?

A similar issue has been posted:

Set screen resolution when booting with no screen

Note: The box is set to auto-login, so if I can change the auto-login resolution (with no monitor), that could possibly help.