Re: Different res for different users

2005-01-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:06:34PM +0200, Arnon Klein wrote: > It's a funny coincidence, but my uncle (family tech support, you know...) > asked me the same question today. > > Here's my script for doing it. If anyone cares to make something graphical > from that, I'll be happy to learn from it.

Re: Different res for different users

2005-01-25 Thread Arnon Klein
It's a funny coincidence, but my uncle (family tech support, you know...) asked me the same question today. Here's my script for doing it. If anyone cares to make something graphical from that, I'll be happy to learn from it... changeResolution.sh: #!/bin/sh old=`xrandr -q | grep "^\\*" | sed 's/

Re: Different res for different users

2005-01-25 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 19:45, Oded Arbel wrote: > AFAIK, if you are using a display manager for login, then X is not being > restarted for each user session - as such you can't actually use a > different resolution for each user, unless you use RANDR. The *dm is the parent process of the ser

Re: Different res for different users

2005-01-25 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday, 24 ×January 2005 18:04, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > On 23/01/2005, at 23:36, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I'm not sure that's the right place for it. You need root > > permissions to > > modify /etc/X11/XF86Config. Putting it there does not make sense on > > Linux. > > Since this topic came up

Re: Different res for different users

2005-01-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:04:35PM +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > > On 23/01/2005, at 23:36, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > >I'm not sure that's the right place for it. You need root permissions > >to > >modify /etc/X11/XF86Config. Putting it there does not make sense on > >Linux. > > Since this to

Re: Different res for different users

2005-01-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:04:35PM +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > > Since this topic came up anyway: I know gnome allows different users to > have different screen resolution settings (on the same machine). > > Anybody know if there is a way to set that independently of gnome? The only pla

Different res for different users

2005-01-24 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
On 23/01/2005, at 23:36, Shlomi Fish wrote: I'm not sure that's the right place for it. You need root permissions to modify /etc/X11/XF86Config. Putting it there does not make sense on Linux. Since this topic came up anyway: I know gnome allows different users to have different screen resolution