Manually change display resolution in xfce

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ee.biker
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Manually change display resolution in xfce

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Hello. In Gentoox Home, is there a file equivalent to XF86Config that I can place Modeline commands (or equivalent) in for XFCE?
The XF86Config does exist, however making Modeline changes here does not have any effect.
I realize I can use xbvset, however I need finer control of the resolution changes.
Thanks
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Post by ShALLaX »

All changes go in XF86Config (or xorg.conf depending on how up to date you are). They should all work fine.
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Post by ee.biker »

Thanks.
Let me be a bit more specific:
I am using VGA with internal syncs. VGA is very stable and works fine in Xebian and I have full control of the resolutions with XF86Config.
When I run your xbvset there is no VGA choice. Therefore I choose X2VGA (I have tried them all just this one is most recent), 720p, 1024x768 (if I remember correctly). After reboot is does great, the mode is just as it is in XF86Config. Now I change that mode to something I want. Reboot. Xfce seems to default to some hard coded resolution of 1155x768 (not sure), definitely not what I asked for.
I can detail this exactly if you like. I just wanted to give you some more info while you were here (maybe).
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Post by ee.biker »

Here is exactly what I tried:
xbvset
X2VGA
720p
1024x768
reboot
fbset –i
mode "1024x768-57"
# D: 62.504 MHz, H: 45.824 kHz, V: 57.424 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 768 32
timings 15999 220 40 22 3 80 5
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode
fbset –x
Mode "1024x768"
# D: 62.504 MHz, H: 45.824 kHz, V: 57.424 Hz
DotClock 62.505
HTimings 1024 1064 1144 1364
VTimings 768 771 776 798
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
current XF86Config:
Modeline "xbox" 62.501 1024 1064 1144 1364 768 771 776 798 -hsync -vsync
Great! Everything matches.
My change:
Modeline "xbox" 45.456 800 820 870 980 600 610 615 630 -hsync -vsync
Reboot
fbset –i
mode "1152x768-55"
# D: 64.998 MHz, H: 44.157 kHz, V: 54.785 Hz
geometry 1152 768 1152 768 32
timings 15385 158 26 29 3 136 6
hsync high
vsync high
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode
fbset –x
Mode "1152x768"
# D: 64.998 MHz, H: 44.157 kHz, V: 54.785 Hz
DotClock 64.999
HTimings 1152 1178 1314 1472
VTimings 768 771 777 806
Flags "+HSync" "+VSync"
EndMode

It seems to get angry and default to some setting that I cannot find anywhere.
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Post by ee.biker »

My fault!
A newbie mistake. The sync rates I was entering were > monitors defined limits.
It works now.
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:)
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