[Gllug] Screen Resolution

[Xander D Harkness]

Using the Xconfigurator tool (or editing the config file by hand) you
can choose a number of resolutions and colour depths.

As others have mentioned the CTRL+ALT+[+-] cycles between them.

Cheers
Xander

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 16:25, will wrote:
> James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there an easy way to change the Screen Res in LInux?
> 
> 
> Ooooh!  Something I actually might know!
> 
> For console, add the line:
> 
> vga=ask
> 
> to the lilo.conf file and I think you then have to re-run lilo.  You 
> will get prompted for a resolution at boot.  For X, I just edited the 
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.  You may well be able to change the X 
> resolution using the xf86config tool, but I never had much luck with it.
> 
> All this was on RH7.2 and it may well be different for a different 
> distro.  You may all now flame me for the innaccuracies in my answers :-)
> 
> -- 
> Will
> 
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