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 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 > xorg.conf file seems rather system-wide, which is a strange thing for > a multi-user system. > > Any pointers? Thanks!
I do not know how gnome does it, but it probably uses the RANDR extension. You can probably do this yourself, but it's not built into the default configs of most distros I have seen. The main tool is a little program called xrandr. Read its manpage. Then create some kind of interface that allows the user to choose their favourite resolution, among those available (I know there is a GUI for the selection itself, don't recall its name - I think it's part of gnome - and you can use xrandr to see what is the current selection), keep it somewhere (e.g. $HOME/.myresolution), and patch the session starter (usually /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or /etc/gdm/Xsession or something like that) to switch to this res before running the actual session program. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
