XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Carmel
I just installed XFCE4 on a fresh FreeBSD-7.2 installation. It works fine except that I cannot get the screen resolution to stay set after I exit the program. The default is: 1792x1144 @ 60 I set it to: 1024x768 @ 85 Everything works fine until I shutdown the program. When I restart it, it

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not work either. Maybe your .xinitrc isn't executed? In mine, I have xrandr --fb 1400x1050

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Carmel
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:49 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r 85' in the '.xinitrc' file; however, that did not work either. Maybe your .xinitrc

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 12 June 2009 05:42:52 Carmel wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:40:49 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:54 -0400, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I tried a trick I found while Googling to place 'xrandr - 1024x768 -r 85' in the '.xinitrc' file;

Re: XFCE4 and screen resolution

2009-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:42:52 -0400, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: Evidently, it is not being executed by startxfce4. If I run the command once XFCE4 is started, it works. Of course. ..-) What is startxfce4? Do you call it from text mode? Or is it a command in .xinitrc or .xsession?