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Simple: Change X Resolutions on the Fly

From McGhee, James on Mon, 06 Mar 2000

Dude,

I don't know if you can answer this. What is the 3 key combination to change the display resolution in the Linux gui?

Thanks,
James McGhee

What kind of "Answer Guy" would I be if I didn't know that!?! You have two to choose from:

[Ctrl]+[Alt][+]

or

[Ctrl]+[Alt][-]

Those MUST be the [+] (plus) and [-] (minus) keys ON THE NUMERIC KEYPAD. The ones in your main alphanumeric cluster won't work for this.

Note that this will only work if you've configured X with multiple resolutions defined. Also it only changes resolutions. If you want to change color depth you have to exit X and restart it (usually using the -bpp option).

Copyright © 2000, James T. Dennis
Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 52 April 2000

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