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By James T. Dennis, [email protected]
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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).


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