The current display settings File

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:

> Hello List,
> 
> Where is the current display selection stored?(Which file?)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

> or how can you find out the present X display settings
> (resolution,depth, frequency etc.,)

> xorg.cong / XFree86.Config files list all possible display "mode"s. 
> How to know which one of them is curently selected ? 

run 'xwininfo' and click on the background

> Is there a command to show current settings and change that other
> than the graphical UI?

What's wrong with 'system-config-display'?

You can 'toggle' between some of the valid modes (specified in
xorg.conf - without restarting X server) with the command 'xrandr'

Satish