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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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How to set X Window screen resolution?

Hi, everybody,

I just installed Arch on my notebook, 1024x768; did everything by the book (Beginner's Guide ). Tried Xfce first; it's fairly OK, but the display resolution is bigger than 1024x768 (the upper left corner of the desktop is in place, but it stretches right and down beyond the screen). Looked in the /root/xorg.conf.new; there's nothing about resolution there. Nothing useful in the Display section of the Xfce menu, but it's no wonder, I guess. What am I to do?

twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: How to set X Window screen resolution?

use your favorite text editor to modify this file:
/etc/X11/Xorg.conf
You must be root to modify it, so use su, or sudo to login to root first.
Now look for this line:

Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"

Now this may not be the same as yours, but it should be in the Display section of the Xorg.conf, the first mode for example, at the above example, the first mode is 1280x1024, this is the resolution X will start in, therefor, change that to the size you want your resolution and walla.

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: How to set X Window screen resolution?

Sorry, I have to move /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually .

No Modes line at all;

I added Modes "1024x768", but nothing changed.

Last edited by Llama (2008-03-04 11:39:03)

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: How to set X Window screen resolution?

xorgconfig turned out to be better than Xorg -configure

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: How to set X Window screen resolution?

xorgcfg -textmode is user friendly.