restore screen resolution?

[Randy Dunlap]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:04:08 -0700 David Mohr wrote:

> 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,

That should be:
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml,
as John pointed out.

> > 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.

But I can't do that in text mode, before X is running, can I?

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~Randy