Bug 679967

Summary:	LXRandR - screen resolution setting is lost on log-out
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	nomnex <nomnex>
Component:	lxrandr	Assignee:	Christoph Wickert <cwickert>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description nomnex 2011-02-24 00:10:40 UTC

Description of problem:

Default screen resolution 1400x1050. I set my screen resolution to 1024x768. My setting is lost on log-out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

LXRandR 0.1.1

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LXRandR 0.1.1
2. Change de default screen resolution do a different resolution
3. Log-out/in
  
Actual results:

the change is lost

Expected results:

the setting is remembered

Additional info:

This is the output of $ xrandr after I change my screen resolution:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1400x1050      60.0 +   60.0  
   1280x1024      59.9     60.0  
   1280x960       60.0     59.9  
   1280x854       59.9  
   1280x800       59.8  
   1280x720       59.9  
   1152x768       59.8  
   1024x768       60.0*    59.9  
   800x600        60.3     59.9     56.2  
   848x480        59.7  
   720x480        59.7  
   640x480        59.9     59.4  
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

I believe all I have to do is to add line in /home/user/.bashrc

xrand <I DON'T KNOW WHAT STRING TO PASS HERE FROM THE $ xrand OUTPUT -- THANKS HELPING>

Comment 1 nomnex 2011-02-24 00:32:13 UTC

man xrandr, version 1.1: xrandr -s <width>x<height>

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2011-02-24 14:56:28 UTC

lxrandr currently does not support restoring a resolution on login. This is not intended, it's only for temporarily configuring external displays.

I suggest you stick with xrandr for now, but I'd make some changes:
1. ~/.bashrc is executed whenever you start bash, so for example when you open lxterminal. This is not what you want.
2. ~/.bash_profile is only executed on login, but also for a login on a console or via ssh. Not what you want either.
3. YOu want this only to happen on graphical login: I suggest you copy /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart to ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and add the xrandr call there:

xrandr -s 1024x768
@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile lxde
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@pulseaudio -D

4. If you want to set the resolution for all system wide (also for the login screen and for all users), drop an configuration file into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. You can use system-config-display to generate it.

I hope this info helps, I'll now close this bug. In the future, please use a mailing list like https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/lxde for questions like this one or if you are unsure if something is a bug or a feature.

Comment 3 nomnex 2011-03-07 02:54:04 UTC

Thanks Chirstoph. I will do as advised for future questions which might not be bugs.

Comment 4 Christoph Wickert 2011-03-07 09:19:32 UTC

No problem. You are not the first person who wants lxrandr to remember the screen setup, there is also a feature request at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=894871&aid=3107353&group_id=180858

So far the developers have not picked it up because they don't like the approach and for me as I maintainer this means I should not do this ether.