On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 22:03:37 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > For some reason, debian-user rejected this post (and will inform me in > > due course), so I'm posting it again. > > > > > It sounds to me more like a Desktop problem: I don't know how to make > > > the effects of xrandr stick like that. > > > > > > I would investigate where the settings are being kept by: > > > > > > 1) check you have a bash prompt available somewhere, eg a VC. > > > 2) make some change with xrandr (any change). > > > 3) save the configuration. > > > 4) run the line: find ~ -type f -mmin -3 > > > > > > where 3 is the number of minutes within which you saved the configuration. > > > It will print the names of any files under your home directory that > > > have been modified within the last three minutes. > > > > > > Not running a DE, I can't be more specific than that. > > > Yeah, the thing is that xrandr doesn't have a step 3. It acts > immediately. The usual save mechanism is to call a script from > .xinitrc or such that invokes the parameters you want.
No, it doesn't, but I thought the DE was doing the saving when Felmon pressed the 'save this configuration' key. > Once I pointed this out, the original poster realized that he > wasn't actually running xrandr. I know so little about DEs; I hadn't even realised that that was the implication of Felmon's using Q4os. Cheers, David.
