On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:43 -0200, Ernesto Silva wrote: > I'm running fedora 9 with Gnome and everything works fine. > > I've also tried Blackbox, twm and WindowMaker windows managers and the > screen resolution it's not the same as in Gnome, I can't understand > why. > Obviously when I start Blackbox or twm or WindowMaker the resolution > is worst than with Gnome. > > In Gnome I have 1280x720 and in the others I have 1024x768. > > Here is my xorg.conf file (snip) > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection Hi Ernesto, Since the resolution is not specified in the xorg.conf file, the X server is probing the video hardware to find out what's possible. The RANDR extension to the X protocol can be used to ask the server to switch to a particular resolution, and Gnome is doing that based on gconf configuration settings. The other desktops may or may not have code to set the resolution (it varies by desktop and version). In any case, the xrandr command may be used to set the resolution: xrandr -s 1680x1050 On the other hand, if you only ever want that one resolution, you could specify it in the xorg.conf file by adding a "Modes" section entry in the "Display" subsection: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x720" EndSubSection EndSection Hope this is useful -- let us know how it goes. -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
