restore screen resolution?

David Mohr squisher at xfce.org
Thu Nov 19 22:04:08 CET 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at xenotime.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:14:33 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was planning to change LCD displays so I told xfce4 to change my
>> display resolution to 800x600 for new incoming display.
>> The current LCD went white and stayed that way, so I rebooted to
>> text mode.
>>
>> How can I tell xfce4 to go back to 1280x1024?
>> Can I edit some file?
>
> I edited ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml,
> changed Resolution from 800x600 to 1280x1024 and all is well again.

For reference, using xfconf-query would have been the better solution,
but the result would be the same.

~David



More information about the Xfce mailing list