[Nottingham] Short cut to fix screen resolution

[Peter Chang]

Iain,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Moppett Iain wrote:
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>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # run game
>
> res="$(xrandr -q|grep '^\*')"
> if [[ "${res:1:1}" != 0 ]]; then
>        xrandr -s 0
> Fi
>
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>
> Is there any need to include all the grep bits?  I have no idea what it
> means.  I assume that its looking for a regular expression, but it all
> seems abit complicated.

If you just execute "xrandr -q", you see that it lists the set of possible 
screen resolutions. The grep is to get the active one indicated by an "*". 
The (arithmetic) shell test, using a substring expansion, is to see if the 
active resolution has an index of 0. If not, then the xrandr command is 
executed.

So basically it's a method to avoid set the resolution to the first one 
listed if the screen is already set at that.

hth,
Peter


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