Change the screen resolution thru commandline, using xrandr

Written on November 22nd, 2009 at 17:24 pm by shredder12

Once I changed my screen's resolution to a very small value and as a result I wasn't able to see the drop down box of the GUI application to change it back. This was when I came to know about Xrandr, a great command line application to configure X11 server. Well, there are a lot of things it can do but if you ever want to change the resolution, use this command.

[shredder12]$ xrandr -s widthxheight,

to change the resolution into 1024x768 replace widthxheight with 1024x768 and it will change it in a moment.

2 Comments

Alan Pope (not verified)
November 22nd, 2009 10:10 pm
Unless you're using the binary nVidia driver, which doesn't support xrandr :(
FarJumper (not verified)
December 19th, 2009 04:15 pm
Nvidia blobs support xrandr from 2008. What driver version do you have?

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