Per-User X Windows System Screen Resolution Configuration

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 14 15:30:45 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:52:19PM -0400, David C. Chipman wrote:
> 		Does anybody know of a way to have the screen
> resolution settings for X Windows change with a given user login?

Well other than the fact that for any modern monitor (LCD that is) you
wouldn't want it at anything other than native resolution, so the idea
has very little future interest, there is a solution:

Use xrandr in your login script (.xsession or whatever) to set the
resolution you want.

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