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Hoolios

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Registered: 2009-06-24

Posts: 1

How to change X11 resolution

Hello, I recently installed arch linux and am liking it so far.  However, I have been having trouble changing the screen resolution.  By following the wiki, I installed xorg and hal.  All the instructions I have found to change the screen resolution have involved xorg.conf, which I am not using.  If it matters I am using fluxbox.  If there is some nice, easy gui I could install to manage the resolution that would be great; if not does anybody have any advice?   
     Thanks

antarbozi

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Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 17

Re: How to change X11 resolution

Try this

 xrandr

and then from that output

xrandr -s <size>/<width>x<height>

replacing it for the size or widthxheight for example 

xrandr -s 3

or xrandr -s 1024x768

Last edited by antarbozi (2009-06-24 04:49:45)

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: How to change X11 resolution

You can also give arandr a try. You can find it on AUR.

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