Hi Everyone I've got a bit of a niggle that I cannot work out, so didn't know if someone could point me in the right way.
For reasons I won't go into, I am using one monitor between two PCs, and using a VGA splitter to manage which signal the monitor receives. The splitter unfortunately does pass along any information about the monitor to the PC (it cannot auto-detect the correct resolution), so each PC is assuming a default 1024x768 VESA output. Using Bash in a terminal, I can type the following commands, which effectively tells the PC that it can use a higher monitor resolution. This works very well, but it's annoying having to run the command each time I log in. (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 & 10.10). $ xrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00" 109.00 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync $ xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1280x1024_60.00 $ xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1280x1024_60.00 I've tried setting these instructions in my ~/.xprofile file, but this doesn't seem to work. When I log in, I get a message saying it has tried to apply the settings, but for some reason it's not able to do it. What I want to know is whether I can put these commands in a file and get Ubuntu to just carry out each instruction - maybe with a 5sec delay between each request - without opening a terminal and repeating the above commands each time I log in. This is only a temporary issue for me until I get another monitor, so it's not affecting my work, but one of the PCs is a shared "family" system, and I do want others in my household having to worry about the command line. I suppose what I'm asking could apply to any command you may wish to automate, so I'm hoping someone will have a relatively easy solution. Thanks Chris _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
