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vda

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From: Italy

Registered: 2015-04-10

Posts: 19

[Solved] How to resize login manager resolution?

Hi all, I'm running Arch Linux with Xfce4 DE. Everithing is ok, but I would like to resize too small resolution of lxdm login manager on my laptop.

I have already tried to add the following instruction

xrandr --output eDP1 --mode "1600x900"

in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, but nothing has changed.

I've also inserted the same code into the lxdm configuration file, but also this doesn’t work.

So I tried to configure Xorg directly

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
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Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Modes "1600x900_60.00"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

but even that doesn't seem to work.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by vda (2021-09-27 12:45:08)

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,307

Re: [Solved] How to resize login manager resolution?

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "eDP1"
    Option "PreferredMode" "1600x900"
EndSection

(no device or screen section)

If that doesn't work, you'll have to edit one of the lxdm setup scripts, likely /etc/lxdm/LoginReady

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [Solved] How to resize login manager resolution?

If the resolution you are trying to set is normally the preferred mode of your screen, this could also be an early KMS hit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

vda

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2015-04-10

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] How to resize login manager resolution?

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-Xorg_Resolution_Setting_1600x900.conf
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Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "eDP1"
    Option "PreferredMode" "1600x900"
EndSection

(no device or screen section)

Thanks so much Seth: you're right, It works!

And thanks to you too V1del for your interest.

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