[PLUG] Setting Display Resolution With xrandr

[frankhunt]

Here's an pretty good explanation with examples:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change-display-resolution-settings-using-xrandr.html



On 05/18/2011 03:51 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>     My laptop has a default screen resolution of 1440x900, but xfce can see
> only 1280x800. I want to add an xrandr command to ~/.xinitrc to set the
> resolution to 1440x900 but I don't know which xrandr option to use.
>
>     There is the --mode option, but that wants a complete mode line, and I
> don't know what to specify other than the x,y size of 1440x900.
>
>     Advice needed.
>
> Rich
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