[PLUG] Screen Resolution

[Rick]

Another option...

Many (most?) monitors will tell you what resolution they are currently
displaying... it can usually be found somewhere in the menus/settings -
often prominently displayed on the main menu. It often will tell you what
the "default/preferred/optimal" resolution for the monitor is as well (for
best results, you should use that resolution - especially on LDC's).

Anyway... depending on your monitor, YMMV - but I always like the monitor as
a resolution info source because it is not  _directly_  connected to what
your operating system reports for the resolution (of course, it SHOULD be
the same, although I've run across a situation or two in the past where the
two sources disagreed... although I don't remember what the cause was, or
how I reconciled it... and it may have been a Windows thing).

-Rick

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>wrote:

> On 10/23/2011 10:17 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>>> "Marvin" == Marvin Kosmal<mkosmal at gmail.com>  writes:
> > Marvin>  Hi How do I figure out what my screen resolution is?
> >
> > Marvin>  I am running Ubuntu..  Lucid
> >
> > Here's the first thing I found that works:
> >
> >    xrandr --prop | grep current
> >
> > I am sure there are other ways.
>
> Not knocking the command line but another way with Ubuntu is to click on
> System > Preferences > Monitors. That brings up a window titled Monitor
> Preferences. The Resolution drop down box shows the list of
> possibilities. I assume they are for the monitor because they don't
> include the either the minimum or the maximum shown by xrandr for my
> machine.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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