[plug] Monitor resolution changes on opening a console terminal

[Kevin Shackleton]

Thanks Nick, I'll try these suggestions out tonight.

Cheers,

Kevin.

On 8 September 2017 at 14:00, Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 04:50:08PM +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> [...]
> > However, when I open a terminal, the screen switches to 1680 * 1050
> > resolution, as though that's a setting in .bashrc or similar.
>
> I don't know how it would have gotten in there... but if something
> indirectly runs xrandr(1) as part of your shell startup, that could do it?
>
> The startup files that bash could use are in:
> man bash | less +/^INVOCATION
>
> You could confirm if /usr/bin/xrandr gets called with execsnoop(8)
> (Debian/Ubuntu package perf-tools-unstable ; or as found from:
> https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools
> or:
> http://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html
> https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
> )
>
> It's possible that the RandR code is being called from elsewhere,
> e.g. via DBUS calls, which could be spotted with dbus-monitor ?
>
> Nick.
>
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