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question about screen size/resolution

hi all long time linux user here but i've never used LXDE and can't find out where/how i change the screen resolution?

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Sat, 08/09/2008 - 16:55 | steve51184

LXRandr works as long as you

LXRandr works as long as you have a driver installed, the setting is shown in xorg, and you aren't using a virtual machine. LXRandR is available in Ubuntulite's repository.

sudo apt-get install lxrandr

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 22:27 | TheWindBlows

60hz

How to change the resolution from 70hz to 60hz, running a crt monitor...

installed lxde after installing ubuntu hardy... and can't get the resolution to 60hz

Sun, 06/21/2009 - 01:48 | Anonymous

screen resolution

Open a terminal and enter

xrandr -s 1024x768

No sudo needed and enter your preferred
resolution in place of 1024x768.

To make it persistent, I entered this line
in the default startup script. Let me know
if needed and I'll look up exactly where this
default file is located.

I have also struggled with screen resolution
and this is the only workable solution I was
able to implement.

Sat, 08/09/2008 - 17:21 | stlubuntu

thank you for the reply and

thank you for the reply and yes i'd love to know where the startup script is :)

Sat, 08/09/2008 - 17:35 | steve51184

location of default script

To make it persistent, I entered this line
in the default startup script. This file is
named "default" and is located in:
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/
I used
sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/default
to edit and added this new line to the end.

Hope this helps.

Sat, 08/09/2008 - 17:41 | stlubuntu

Well, can I start this script

Well, can I start this script locally in home directory when LXDE session starts? Just to overwrite global settings in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/default?

Mon, 08/11/2008 - 10:47 | knedlyk

default startup script

Regarding starting a script in home directory, I really don't know.
The above solution is what worked for me (and now Steve, too.)

Try what you propose and post the results here (please include
detail on exactly what you did, too, please.)

Frankly, I recommend what has already worked as described
earlier in this post.

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 03:10 | stlubuntu

Well, it works for me too,

Well, it works for me too, but as a ubuntu-user I prefer to configure my system locally, not using much sudo. That is why I'm asking about the possibility of changing options in home directory as a local user. I sent an email to lxde-list and asked about that.

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 15:59 | knedlyk

Heh, solution is very easy:

Heh, solution is very easy: to start ANY application you want just create folder
mkdir ~/.config/autostart
if it not exists, then copy there application desktop file you want to start on startup (for example copy from /usr/share/application) or just create one adding there your startup script.

My try with ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/default was unsuccessful.

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 17:04 | knedlyk

thank you works perfect :)

thank you works perfect :)

Sat, 08/09/2008 - 17:51 | steve51184

thanks

I am not really good at guessing what will be the right resolution. So i found you can try different resolutions with grandr. It can be installed with synaptic. For some reason, it does not save the settings. So the work around above was a great help

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 15:45 | joris