[NTLUG:Discuss] display resolution startup

[Steve Baker]

Wayne Dahl wrote:

> This brings up a question I've had for a long time, but never had a real
> reason to ask.  Is there a way to change screen resolutions on the fly
> similar to what M$ allows?  I'm running RH 8.0, but does ANY distro
> allow you to do that?  If so, how?

Yes.

If you have multiple display resolutions set up in XF86COnfig, you can
cycle through them with a Ctrl-Alt-] and Ctrl-Alt-[  (I think that's
true of all Window Managers - but I guess there could be exceptions).

I don't think it's distro-specific - but if you let the system
configure the XF86Config file automatically, it may only have
put one resolution in there - so you'd be cycling through the
same resolution over and over.

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