On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:17:29PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | How do you set the X server to 800x600 from a program or script?
You edit the config file. The config file is NOT re-written
automagically. (only brain-dead software that is too stupid for it's
own good would do a fool thing like that)
| I'm setting up for an outback lan party, and since I'm using some old
| equipment I'd like every one of the 12 Debian boxes to run an X server
| at 800x600.
How about using this shell script (at your own risk, untested) :
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#!/bin/sh
# change this if you have your config file named differently
CONFIG=/etc/X11/XF86Config
T=`mktempfile`
rm -f $T
mv $CONFIG $T
sed -e 's/^\([^M]*\)odes.*/\1Modes "800x600"/' < %T > $CONFIG
rm -f $T
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Once you've "fixed" the config file, you're done. (Re)start X. Go
home and take a vacation :-).
-D
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