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How do you change the resolution of the login screen in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)?
Edit: keep in mind that I need to change the resolution of the login screen, as explained below.
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How do you change the resolution of the login screen in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)?
Edit: keep in mind that I need to change the resolution of the login screen, as explained below.
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What you want to do is change the GDM LOGIN Screen resolution?
Read this and please accept the correct answer.
Justin was kind of correct except the fact that GDM uses the modeline from your xorg.conf. The priority runs from left to right, so if you add "1280x960" as the first entry and remove any items you don't want (who needs half of them anyway, 768x600 or whatever it was, madness.) you should be fine for GDM.
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x960" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Let me know if you need further explanation.
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I believe you need to configure your xorg.conf to include the proper modes.
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT]"
Monitor "17P3"
DefaultDepth 24
[...]
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "1280x960" "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Where the first Mode is the default resolution.
If you have an ATI card you may try this as well.
sudo aticonfig --resolution=0,1280x1024,1024x768,800x600
Where 0 is the first screen, and the resolutions are in order of preferred first.
Try adding this as a subsection to the 'Screen' section in your xorg.conf
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1280 800
EndSubSection
...and this will just change the login resolution, right? – Nathan Osman – 2010-01-21T19:11:17.193
Not really...resolution is a global setting. – Bobby – 2010-01-21T19:25:55.520
That's not what I need though. – Nathan Osman – 2010-01-21T19:40:22.570
Once I'm logged on, everything is fine, but the login screen has the wrong resolution. – Nathan Osman – 2010-01-21T19:41:47.450
@George: Ohhh... in that case try it! I thought you wanted different resolutions and not the same, sorry. – Bobby – 2010-01-24T18:21:15.900
@Bobby: Ya, the GTK desktop is, I believe 1280x800 but the login screen somehow became 2560x1024 and I wanted to fix it. What do I change in xorg.conf? It isn't that I want to add a resolution, but simply reset everything to 1280x800. – Nathan Osman – 2010-01-24T19:40:46.623
What video card do you have? – Justin S – 2010-01-26T02:59:42.300
Try this as well. Add this text as a subsection to the 'Screen' section
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1280 800
EndSubSection
– Justin S – 2010-01-26T03:10:29.247
@JustinS what do you mean? – Max Coplan – 2019-11-20T17:02:17.427
@JustinS Is Virtual
the name of your display? If my name is Virtual1
should I use that name? And where are the line breaks? Should it be "1280x800"
instead of 1280 800
? – Max Coplan – 2019-11-20T17:05:42.857
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If you don't have a special X11 configuration but you do happen to have a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
, you might want to try moving it aside and see what happens. Usually X11 should configure itself properly these days and in my experience having stuff in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
often causes problems.
To try without the file:
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
and restart.
If it doesn't help move it back:
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and restart once more.
what is your login-manager (gdm, kdm, slick etc)? – akira – 2010-01-22T04:55:45.477
I am using gdm. – Nathan Osman – 2010-01-22T06:36:11.160