Re: Screen resolution

[Jörgen Lundberg <jorgen asd campus luth se>]

Knut Ove Hauge wrote:

> Hi all.
> Anybody know how to set the screen resolution and color depth in gnome.
First of all: This is not GNOME specific. It is X specific.

* Resulotion: Ctrl + alt + (+/-) changes the resolution. Note that your 
X server has to have other resolutions than the current one configured 
for this to work.

* Color depth is decided at X startup. E.g. startx -- -bpp16 for 16 bit 
color depth. There is also an option in the /etc/(X11)/XF86Config called 
DefaultColorDepth where you can set the default color depth at startup.

The settings for resolution, color depth and default color depth is in 
the end of /etc/(X11)/XF86Config. For further info read:
man XF86Config.

Also note that this is not distro specific info. There is usually some X 
configuration tool bundled in the distos  (as Markus pointed out).


Regards,

Jörgen Lundberg