[plug] Screen resolution

[Ben Jensz]

If you're running Red Hat, type "Xconfigurator" (capital X is intentional)
and you can change your desktop resolution through that tool.

You have to be root to do this, and if you run it under X, don't let it test
the settings.  Also before you confirm the settings you change it to, make
sure your monitor can handle the refresh rate you've specified and
resolution you set it to.  I've seen (and smelt) what happens to a monitor
when it attempts to display a resolution/refresh rate out of its proper
operational range.

If you're running in GUI mode all of the time (runlevel 5), I think that
CTRL+ALT+Backspace should close X and then start it up again, or if not in
runlevel 5, drop back to a console and startx again :).


/ Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Roderick Elliott" <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:47 PM
Subject: [plug] Screen resolution


> Hi
>
> how do you change your screen resolution - which file do you need to edit
and
> where is it kept?
>
> I accepted the defaults when I loaded Red Hat 7.1 , but find the fonts too
> small to read comfortably and would like to chang to 600 x 800.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> James Elliott
>