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My external monitor display is "wavy" or "wobbly". A colleague looked at my screen and told me that this is probably bad for my eyes. Will increasing the refresh rate fix this problem? How do I do this in ubuntu 14.04?

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You have to use Terminal. Open it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and then run xrandr.

You might get something like:

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm

N°:0   1024x768   60.0     87.0*
N°:1   1024x576   60.0
N°:2   960x600    60.0
N°:3   960x540    60.0
N°:4   800x600    85.0     75.0     72.0     60.0     56.0

Then you can choose from the resolutions and refresh rates listed above. The following line of code changes to 1024x768 at 60Hz:

xrandr -s 0 -r 60

Where -s will change your resolution to the the one specified in the number zero and -r will change your refresh rate to 60Hz.

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