Resizing Screen Resolution on Netbooks
Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 00:31
Hi Voria,
I was over at Insanelywind and noticed that somebody posted a thread mentioning that the screen resolution can be set higher than the default.
He mentions that if you run terminal and type:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --scale 1.25x1.25
And voilá! Now you have a virtual resolution of 1280x750, with no need to scroll. As it name suggest, the command is part of the X system, and it means to Rotate and Resize.
You can play with the scaling factor. Personally, i left it at 1.2x1.2
It has to be run everytime the system starts. Would you be able to make a script that gets launched on boot to make the changes permanent.
Thank you for your time
All the best
NSCXP2005
I was over at Insanelywind and noticed that somebody posted a thread mentioning that the screen resolution can be set higher than the default.
He mentions that if you run terminal and type:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --scale 1.25x1.25
And voilá! Now you have a virtual resolution of 1280x750, with no need to scroll. As it name suggest, the command is part of the X system, and it means to Rotate and Resize.
You can play with the scaling factor. Personally, i left it at 1.2x1.2
It has to be run everytime the system starts. Would you be able to make a script that gets launched on boot to make the changes permanent.
Thank you for your time
All the best
NSCXP2005