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**TangleCrow** · Jun 21, 2011, 01:32 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

I've searched this forum for answers and have been messing around a little on my own.
I tried to:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup

and added the line:

Code:

xrandr --output default --mode 1280x1024

But, alas, it still wouldn't work. So then I came across another suggestion. I booted into the recovery root-shell mode, and ran

Code:

Xorg -configure

This didn't work either:

number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.

(I've only got one screen)

Any suggestions?

**dibl** · Jun 21, 2011, 01:47 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

I gather that you are not using the proprietary Nvidia driver? If I got that right, then probably you need a modeline in the xorg.conf file. Here's some details on that: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...5873#msg245873

Also the "Top 20" link in my signature has other tidbits that may be helpful with Kubuntu.

**charles052** · Jun 21, 2011, 07:48 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

I'm just a newbie, but my kubuntu wouldn't remember my wallpaper. All I had to do was lock the widgets and that fixed my problem. It might work for yours too.

**ManGo** · Jun 22, 2011, 08:04 AM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

As I'm using partly the same hardware as you , nVidia-graphics and also still using a CRT monitor (still functioning very well and I like the colours...) , I was encountering the same problems as you mentioned. And solved them both.

Until a couple of years agoo “Linux...” was famous for it's support of “old” hardware. I 've got the feeling that 'at Kubuntu' they 're now to implement new possibilties 'as soon as possible and also cut some “old stuff” rather quickly.
I'm running Kubuntu already for years, started with version 9.10. Running 11.04 now ,but it was impossible for me to install 11.04 from an image/ cd as I 've done up to 10.10.
Had to install 10.10 first and then do a online-update. Still don't no the reason why....
Could be also because of the CRT....
But enough of the philosofiïng here, let's get practical...

At the mentioned point 1: Make Kubuntu remember the wanted resolution. The point is you have edit a file that is (partly) responsible for the behavior of your graphical environment. This file is xorg.conf.
First I suggest you install the nVidia driver. (K-menu, Program 's, System, Extra drivers.)
This comes with some helpful utilities. Helpful for us is there is also some software inside that can help us build the xorg-conf file. Some people don't want to install any prop. software at all and that is fine too. But in that case you have to do more hand/ typework to build the xorg.conf. So post back wich way you wanna go, then we can continue from there.

At the mentioned point 2: Not visible “systemtray”. Click right on an empty piece in the panel , go to “Panel-options”, click left “Panel-settings”, click-left “More settings” Now you see some options under “Panel outlining” (or something like that, I've translated it because I'm not a user of an english version of Kub.) Standard is selected “Left”, Left-click on “Middle” Now you've got some handles in the middle and on the ends of the panel where you can manipulate the length and the position of the panel with. With a little fiddling you can get the systemtray in sight. Another possibility is to put the panel on the left or right side of the screen. There the 'systemtray' apears immediately. ( Click right on an empty piece in the panel , go to “Panel-options”, click left “Panel-settings”, go to “Screen-edge” )
Succes.

(Let's be not too serious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrkGir-DE)

**sithlord48** · Jun 22, 2011, 08:20 AM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

Originally posted by TangleCrow

I've searched this forum for answers and have been messing around a little on my own.
I tried to:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup

and added the line:

Code:

xrandr --output default --mode 1280x1024

But, alas, it still wouldn't work.

you should try the xrandr command in the terminal before you add it to you Xsetup . that command does not work to begin with..

you should try..
xrandr -s 1024x768 (or what ever res you want)

**TangleCrow** · Jun 22, 2011, 02:16 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

I added

Code:

xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1024x768 --rate 85

to /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup

I suspect this is a dirty solution, but it worked! And I was also able to bring the system tray back,
after doing what ManGO suggested and fiddling quite a bit around with the bottom panel.

Regarding installing Nvidia drivers... I'm a bit ambivalent towards them. I think the “Experimental support for Nvidia cards” is a big improvement. I'm not usually gaming, so I think the NOUVEAU drivers will do for now. And for some reason, when I previously have installed the Nvidia drivers in Kubuntu, a 85mhz refresh rate hasn't been available for 1024*768. (At least not under the system settings/monitor.)

A final question: Has making a xorg-conf file either by installing the Nvidia drivers, or by writing one by hand any advantages over this quick and dirty solution outlined above? (I found it in another thread.)

Thanks to all you guys who contributed to this thread.

**sithlord48** · Jun 22, 2011, 03:05 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

thats a fine solution. its not dirty at all.. if you have the open-source drivers this is the perfered way

if no Xorg.conf is found try to bring up the xserver w/ the monitors default. This only works if you don't have a propertary driver installed.

IF you use the nvidia driver or the ati driver you need to have the xorg.conf file to tell xorg how it should bring up the display (and what driver to use)

not all modes will have the same refresh opitons.

**TangleCrow** · Jun 22, 2011, 04:53 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

Ahem... A little unrelated question: How do you mark your thread as solved
on this forum?

**oshunluvr** · Jun 22, 2011, 04:56 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

return to you first post, edit, add <Solved> (or whatever) to the subject.

**TangleCrow** · Jun 22, 2011, 05:19 PM

Re: Kubuntu don't remember my resolution

Originally posted by oshunluvr

return to you first post, edit, add <Solved> (or whatever) to the subject.

Hmmmm.... That's certainly an unorthodox way of marking your thread as solved!

Well, well. Cheers anyway!

**eldergeek** · Jun 03, 2012, 02:41 PM

This didn't work for me. My monitor will only support 1024x768 but X auto configures to 1280x1024 every time the system boots up and I can find to way to bind it to the correct resolution. There is no xorg.conf file. I'm not sure which driver I'm using but the computer is a Dell, Dimension 2400 and it's using whichever driver was installed from the Kubuntu 12.04 LTS live CD (I've made no changes). Here's the contents of the Xsetup file:

---
#! /bin/sh
# Xsetup - run as root before the login dialog appears

#xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole &

/sbin/initctl -q emit login-session-start DISPLAY_MANAGER=kdm

# The following was appended in an attempt to fix the display resolution to that supported by the monitor.

xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1024x768 --rate 60
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