[SOLVED] How to make screen resolution change permanent?

[Member bobbiecb]

My default screen resolution under VirtualBox is 800×600.

I changed it to 1024 by the line command — xrandr -x 1024×768

Anyone know how to make this permanent across sessions?

(I tried putting the xrandr command in /etc/rc.local and /etc/init.d but neither worked).

• This topic was modified 5 years ago by bobbiecb.

[Member rob]

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To get the resolution change to happen automatically after you log in, edit the file ~/.desktop_session/startup
(This is per-user, so if you have more than one login that you use, you will need to make then change in each user’s ~/.desktop_session/startup file).

Add the following two lines (Strictly only need the xrandr line, but best to add a comment as well) anywhere after the line #!/bin/bash:

# Set resolution size after session login
xrandr -s 1024×768

[Member bobbiecb]

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Thanks for your reply.

Last night I created a new script I put in init.d, consisting of the single line xrandr -s 1024×768
Then I updated the executable scripts by update-rc.d MY_SCRIPT defaults

It worked fine. But I’ll change it to your way, as it places the script in a much better more obvious location.

Thank you.

[Member greyowl]

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This is very helpful information which I might need in the future.
Thank you.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

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