How to change screen resolution using shell command.

[Chris Vanhoof]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, Alex White wrote:

> David Le wrote:
> 
> >I wonder if there is any shell command that allows me
> >to change this display's resolution or is there any
> >way to recover from this uncompatible setting?
> >
> >If you know how to resolve this problem, please let me
> >know.
> 
> As root do the following, I believe this is valid for FC1
> 
> redhat-config-xfree86
> 
> and there you go.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alex White
> 
Or you could just use xrandr if you want to do it on the fly, and you
already have the desired setting set in your xorg.conf.

Run 'xrandr' to see whats available, and to switch to one of those run:

# xrandr -s <width>x<height> 
 
--chris

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