Another option... Many (most?) monitors will tell you what resolution they are currently displaying... it can usually be found somewhere in the menus/settings - often prominently displayed on the main menu. It often will tell you what the "default/preferred/optimal" resolution for the monitor is as well (for best results, you should use that resolution - especially on LDC's).
Anyway... depending on your monitor, YMMV - but I always like the monitor as a resolution info source because it is not _directly_ connected to what your operating system reports for the resolution (of course, it SHOULD be the same, although I've run across a situation or two in the past where the two sources disagreed... although I don't remember what the cause was, or how I reconciled it... and it may have been a Windows thing). -Rick On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/23/2011 10:17 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > >>>>>> "Marvin" == Marvin Kosmal<[email protected]> writes: > > Marvin> Hi How do I figure out what my screen resolution is? > > > > Marvin> I am running Ubuntu.. Lucid > > > > Here's the first thing I found that works: > > > > xrandr --prop | grep current > > > > I am sure there are other ways. > > Not knocking the command line but another way with Ubuntu is to click on > System > Preferences > Monitors. That brings up a window titled Monitor > Preferences. The Resolution drop down box shows the list of > possibilities. I assume they are for the monitor because they don't > include the either the minimum or the maximum shown by xrandr for my > machine. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
