xfce4-display-settings

killermoehre killermoehre at gmx.net
Fri Nov 16 10:16:38 CET 2012


Am 15.11.2012 13:45, schrieb Boris Hollas:
> I use xrandr to detect and activate monitors. However, the Xfce window
> manager doesn't always discover that the screen resolution has changed.
> So I tried
> 
> ~$ xfce4-display-settings --display=DVI-0
> xfce4-display-settings: Cannot open display: DVI-0.
> 
> although
> 
> ~$ xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
> DVI-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 546mm x 352mm
> 
> Also,
> 
> ~$ xfce4-display-settings --display=LVDS
> xfce4-display-settings: Cannot open display: LVDS.
> 
> although LVDS is connected.
> 
> What is the correct syntax?

The --display switch is to specify the X-Display (like :0.0 for the
standard local one). You should probably use »xrandr --auto«.

Regards




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