Comments on: xrandr: Linux Resize / Set The Screen Size Quickly Via Command Line Options

By: srinu

srinu — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:13:55 +0000

hi
now my scree resolution is 800*600.
i want improve my screen resolution . i tried from display settings ,there is max.resolution is 800*600.
………………………………………………
[wtcs@localhost ~]$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 connected 800×600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
800×600 60.3*
640×480 59.9
………………………………………………..

how can i improve my screen resolution.
helpme
thanks,
srinu

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:40:14 +0000

“I haven’t yet seen a comment like my difficulty. I have used xrandr with my Ubuntu machine. It rotates the display 90 deg. (to fit my rotatable flat screen) but it doesn’t fill the portrait mode position so I’m still left with a landscape ‘view’ and a blank portion at the bottom of the screen. Any ideas ?”

same thing here ; have you found solutions?
thanks

By: rajesh

rajesh — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:20:50 +0000

but can it change resolution of external hardware attached to it such as Set Top box ………..

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:48:36 +0000

This is wonderful. I’m now using this command (and launchers) to rotate the screen on my Asus EeePC to read ebooks, doc files and PDFs with greater ease, not to mention long web pages. The netbook’s shallow 600 px screen was making me wear out the page down button! OpenOffice files were a bit too wide, but I set the View>zoom to “optimal” and that took care of it. The built-in trackpad seems to be confused by the switch, but a USB/wireless mouse handles cursor movement perfectly. Thanks for the tips.

By: B J Russ

B J Russ — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:51:18 +0000

I haven’t yet seen a comment like my difficulty. I have used xrandr with my Ubuntu machine. It rotates the display 90 deg. (to fit my rotatable flat screen) but it doesn’t fill the portrait mode position so I’m still left with a landscape ‘view’ and a blank portion at the bottom of the screen. Any ideas ?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:52:44 +0000

Very CoooooooL
Thank You :) !!

By: eddie

eddie — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:07:49 +0000

Is it possible to use this feature with an indvidual window within your whole resolution?

For example:

I have 1280×1024 screen resolution and I want to resize Firefox to 1024×768 within my resolution.

By: cyberciti

cyberciti — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:11:00 +0000

That’s not correct.

xrandr changes the physical/real resolution.

Xrandr can switch the video mode along with the dimensions of the root window. ctrl+alt +/- uses the VidMode extension to switch the video mode, but it can’t change the dimension of the root window.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:38:00 +0000

On Fedora(and Redhat) you can also use [ctl]+[alt] + number pad +/- to cycle though the screen res.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:21:00 +0000

Never knew xrandr command ever exists