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- Xrandr is used to set the size, orientation and/or reflection of the outputs for a screen. It can also set the screen size. There are a few global options; the rest modify a particular output and follow the specification of that output on the command line.
- Open the terminal and run the following commands
- First you need to enter the following command
- $ xrandr
- This will display the allowed resolutions
- Sample output
- Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
- VGA1 connected 800×600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 267mm x 200mm
- 800×600 85.1* +
- 640×480 75.0 60.0
- 720×400 70.1
- If you want to add a mode with resolution 1024X768, you can enter the following command: (The output is shown following.)
- $ cvt 1024 768
- Sample output
- # 1024×768 59.92 Hz (CVT 0.79M3) hsync: 47.82 kHz; pclk: 63.50 MHz
- Modeline "1024x768_60.00″ 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
- Now you need to create a modeline
- $ xrandr --newmode <Modeline>
- copy the modeline of the previous output to the place mode line
- $ xrandr --newmode "1024x768_60.00″ 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
- Now you need to add the above mode using the following command
- $ xrandr --addmode VGA1 1024x768_60.00
- here for VGA1 you have to use what ever that was there for $ xrandr output
- $ xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768_60.00
- Running these would change your resolution but this is temporary.these steps were done to make sure that these commands work
- Now we need to make these changes permanent
- Now you need to edit the default file
- $gksudo gedit /etc/gdm/Init/Default
- Look for the following lines
- PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
- OLD_IFS=$IFS
- and Add the the following lines below them
- xrandr --newmode "1024×768″ 70.00 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
- xrandr --addmode VGA1 1024x768_60.00
- xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024×768
- Save and exit the file
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