Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:08:54 +0300
Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> wrote:
> In XFCE4, on Jessie, I am getting a display resolution of 1400x1050
> instead of 1680x1050. If I go to the XFCE Menu -> Settings ->
> Display, it gives me only a single choice, that of 1400x1050, not
> higher or lower.
>
> xrandr seems to be able to see the maximum resolution:
>
> $ xrandr
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 1400 x 1050, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x
> 1050 default connected 1400x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> 1400x1050 60.00*
> 1680x1050 (0x186) 146.250MHz
> h: width 1680 start 1784 end 1960 total 2240 skew 0
> clock 65.29KHz
> v: height 1050 start 1053 end 1059 total 1089
> clock 59.95Hz
>
>
> What should I be looking at to get this set in XFCE?
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in
LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's
an X thing, plain and simple.
My computer does the opposite. It opens in too high a resolution, so
that the bottom of the screen is unseeable. So I created the following
command, called xraa, to switch from 1920x1200 to 1920x1080:
=============================================
#!/bin/bash
sudo xrandr --output default --mode 1920x1080
=============================================
In my Openbox, Shift+Ctrl+Semicolon brings up dmenu, I type xraa, and
bang, my resolution's right. Obviously, my visudo sets xrandr to run as
root for slitt, no password.
There's probably a "right" way to fix it, but I haven't found it yet,
so I just work around the problem.
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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