SUMMARY:Display resolution

From: <NTarasyuk_at_snowyhydro.com.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:24:46 +1000

Hi all

Original question was:
"Is there a utility to set display resolution on Tru64?
(Similar to Windows' "Control Panel - Display")"
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Of course, there isn't (silly me). I wish Style Manager could do it, though.

Thanks to Ryan McConigley, Screenisava Prasad, Rowan Bailey and others,
who pointed me at the right direction how to do it.

1. Suggested to put
:0 Local local_at_console /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -screen0 1600x1200
into
(/etc/dt/config/Xservers .
to set resolution 1600x1200.

2. Suggested to put
:0 Local local_at_console /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -screen0 1280 -depth0 24
into
/usr/dt/config/Xservers.con
to set resolution 1280x1024.

3. Suggested to put
-pn -nice 2 -screen0 1600x1200 -vsync 75
into
/usr/lib/X11/Xserver.conf
to set resolution 1600x1200.

I believe that the above options will work if you are running CDE.

If you are running XDM (like us) you need to put those configuration lines
into
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers .

And if you are running XDM and use xinit to start X server (like us),
you need to pass that resolution configuring line into xinit as a parameter.
It's being then passed to X server by xinit, I believe.

Thanks again to the nice folks that took their time to help.


Nik Tarasyuk
Software Engineer
Snowy Hydro
Australia
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 07:26:26 NZST

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