{"id":16878,"date":"2012-10-29T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16878"},"modified":"2012-10-29T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T10:23:29","slug":"fixing-screen-resolution-on-linux-with-xrandr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/29\/fixing-screen-resolution-on-linux-with-xrandr\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing screen resolution on Linux with xrandr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not the best start of the week today.\u00a0 For some weird reason my desktop’s screen resolution crashed into a safe 1024×768 mode today.\u00a0 No updates, no changes in configuration, not even a reboot – just in the middle of the working morning.\u00a0 I’ve tried to fix it to no avail, installed updates, and even rebooted.\u00a0 Nothing seemed to help.\u00a0 Google to the rescue, and I find this handy page<\/a> that shows step by step how to use xrandr to fix things.\u00a0 I knew about xrandr for a few years now, but it’sbeen decades since I had to use it, so I’m rusty.\u00a0 15 seconds later I have the following script ready:<\/p>\n

\r\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\n#gtf 1280 1024 60\r\nxrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00"\u00a0 108.88\u00a0 1280 1360 1496 1712\u00a0 1024 1025 1028 1060\u00a0 -HSync +Vsync\r\nxrandr --addmode VGA1 1280x1024_60.00\r\nxrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024_60.00\r\n<\/pre>\n
Run it once and all is back to normal. In fact, after a few minutes in 1024×768 mode, it feels like I have a better monitor now than I used to. They say, you need to lose something to really appreciate what you have. Until today I thought I had a crappy old monitor. But just a few minutes in a lower resolution make me appreciate it a lot now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Not the best start of the week today.\u00a0 For some weird reason my desktop’s screen resolution crashed into a safe 1024×768 mode today.\u00a0 No updates, no changes in configuration, not even a reboot – just in the middle of the working morning.\u00a0 I’ve tried to fix it to no avail, installed updates, and even rebooted.\u00a0 … Continue reading Fixing screen resolution on Linux with xrandr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[65,2351],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-desktop","tag-fedora-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27359,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/19\/i3-window-manager-a-week-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":16878,"position":0},"title":"i3 window manager – a week later","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A week ago I blogged about i3 window manager and my attempt to use it instead of MATE. \u00a0So, how am I am doing so far? 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