On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Kyle Balling wrote:

>     Is there a way to define a screen resolution for x in the command 
> line via startx or xinit? The purpose for this is a script that lets the 
> user choose a resolution for X to start with before starting X. I would 
> like to avoid appending the XF86Config file.

If you define several screens and layouts in your config file
you can choose which one to start with something like
        startx -- -layout 1280x1024
or      
        startx -- -layout 1024x768

See ServerLayout in "man XF86Config" for more.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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