David Wright wrote: > For some reason, debian-user rejected this post (and will inform me in > due course), so I'm posting it again. > > > It sounds to me more like a Desktop problem: I don't know how to make > > the effects of xrandr stick like that. > > > > I would investigate where the settings are being kept by: > > > > 1) check you have a bash prompt available somewhere, eg a VC. > > 2) make some change with xrandr (any change). > > 3) save the configuration. > > 4) run the line: find ~ -type f -mmin -3 > > > > where 3 is the number of minutes within which you saved the configuration. > > It will print the names of any files under your home directory that > > have been modified within the last three minutes. > > > > Not running a DE, I can't be more specific than that.
Yeah, the thing is that xrandr doesn't have a step 3. It acts immediately. The usual save mechanism is to call a script from .xinitrc or such that invokes the parameters you want. Once I pointed this out, the original poster realized that he wasn't actually running xrandr. -dsr-
