Felmon Davis wrote: > greets! > > I was trying to get a second monitor (a tv) to work using xrandr. I noticed > that the screen on the laptop would suffer severe, almost 'psychedelic', > effects if I hit a certain setting. > > unfortunately I don't recall the setting but the ill effect was consistent > and rendered the display nearly unreadable. and the only solution was to end > the session. > > then by accident I hit the 'save this configuration' key and now the setting > is permanent. > > btw I created a second user and it doesn't suffer from the problem. > > I cannot find a way to restore the proper display setting. there's no > configuration file I can find for xrandr. > > it's an Asus Zenbook with Intel HD graphics. > > I am considering shifting to the second user and grappling with the UID and > GID changes. I ultimately want to get back to using the original username. > > surely there is a simpler solution. perhaps purge xrandr?
xrandr doesn't have a "save this configuration" key; it is command-line only. What *randr program were you using? arandr lxrandr something built in to a desktop environment? -dsr-
