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k_f

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Registered: 2008-06-05

Posts: 6

kde4.3 doesn't stay on 800x600

Today I installed kde4.3 on a really old PC, which is using an old 15' monitor, 800x600 is the best resolution for it, and I set 800x600 in the system settings. But after relog, the resolution is set to 1024x768, when I open the "display" option window in system settings, it changes back to 800x600. The video card is a nvidia mx440, I installed xf86-video-nv as the video driver, and there is no xorg.conf. Do I need to set resolution in xorg.conf like the old way to make it stay on 800x600? or there is some other way to do that? All ideas are appreciiated

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: kde4.3 doesn't stay on 800x600

An alternative to editing/creating xorg.conf is to create a script

#!/bin/bash
xrandr --size 800x600

and add it to the scripts in System Settings -> Advanced -> Autostart via "Add Script".

Kde will then start (splash screen etc.) in 1024x768 and at some point switch resolution. Not very pretty, but it works for me.

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