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tori

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Saturday, December 20th 2003, 1:53am

KDE/X won't save my screen resolution

I'm running KDE in Slackware 9.1. I go into the Screen settings and set 800x600 but when I logout and login again it reverts to 1280x1024.

I went into /etc and did an rgrep 1280 * and went into every file that had 1280 in it and commented those lines out (where it related to screen resolution). I also got rid of anything else that was not 800x600 or 640x480.

Still, when I go into X, I get KDE at 1280x1024.

I've spent three hours just trying to change the resolution now. :-( I've read a pile of documentation and done a lot of experimentation, but I just can't figure this out. What am I doing wrong?

I tried the xrand -s 800x600 thing and that worked until I log out and login again, then it goes back to 1280. :-(

I hope somebody can help me.

Tori

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Saturday, January 3rd 2004, 2:23am

i dunno anything about slackware. my example is using debian 3.0 but hopefully it proves useful.

go to /etc/X11/XFConfig
(maybe also /etc/X11/XFconfig-4

find the section named screen.
then just comment the resolutions you don't want.
here is what my XFConfig file looks like:
[code:1]
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "AccelStar AGP"
Monitor "NEC e500"
DefaultColorDepth 32
# Subsection "Display"
# Depth 8
# Modes "640x480" "800x600"
# ViewPort 0 0
# EndSubsection
# Subsection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "640x480" "800x600"
# ViewPort 0 0
# EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
[/code:1]
just so you know, i don't know much about x either.. i did that it left my resolution at 1024x768.

hth.