[Ilugc] Resolution problem with Arch Linux and Xfce
- From: thescriptdevil@xxxxxxxxx (Ashok Gautham)
- Date: Mon Dec 15 21:51:46 2008
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Bhargav Prasanna <bhargavprasanna@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
After a lot of speculation, i went for Xfce.. As i had used it before
(in Xubuntu), i thought i'd feel comfortable..
Dint work.. so i edited the second line of the .xinitrc file.. then
gave 'startxfce4' at the prompt..
It worked!!
/me points out that it must be exec xfce4-session in .xinitrc and not
startxfce4.
But the resolution was darn low.. 640x480 i guess..
I've edited the "Screen" section in my xorg.conf numerous times after
that.. deleted all Mode entries except "1024x768" (the resolution i
want) but ecerytime i login, i get only a 640x480 screen.. Xfce
overrides the xorg.conf file specs..
If you initiate xfce4 through xinit (or startx for that matter), the
resolution
will be taken from the default xorg.conf. Else xfce will figure out its own
resolution. (Like you did in your case using startxfce4)
The CLI where i give the startxfce4 command (which happens to be vc/1
or vc/2 et. al.) has a good resolution though!
Hmmm. That is dependent on the way grub's menu.lst is configured
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
A happy Archer,
Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham
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