Sunday 22 May 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 Unity and xrandr

Had a odd problem when using xrandr to get higher resolutions on the Samsung N210P. It seems Unity makes changing the resolution a bit harder than with 10.10. I previously used

xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --scale 1.25x1.25


to get 1280x750 resolution. With Unity this leaves black bands to the top and right of the screen.

The fix is easy though makes changing resolution a little faffy. Just run the above and then run


unity --replace


after pressing ALT-F2.

Unity rebuilds the screen to the appropriate resolution.

This post and my response on Ubuntu Forums gives more details.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1758403

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