brian wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
I can't say off hand what is causing it, but if you have access to a
"stretched" terminal window, what does xrandr say about the display,
and can you use it to return it to the proper size?
Thanks. Yeah, when this happens, I can easily open a terminal. Thanks
for the tip. I've just saved the output (I'll print it here, fwiw) so i
can compare the next time this happens. And I'll go through the man page
to figure out how to (try to) reset the dims.
I find that I generally have to issue 2 commands:
1 to change to a different screen size than xrandr *thinks* is being
displayed
and the 2nd to reset the screen back to the size it *should* have been
displaying....
I'd really like to know, though, if there's something in a log that
might provide a clue as to why it's happening.
Not that I can tell. Some programs play with the display size in
different ways. Not all of them are fool-proof (or should I say
error-proof?)
Here is my usual example:
I'm running dosbox in full screen mode (80x24 text mode, I think that's
720x480), and dosbox often changes the display mode as well. If
everything runs OK, when I exit dosbox, it returns the display to what
it was when I started it. Sometimes dosbox hangs. When it does, I have
to kill it. Usually it has hosed up X11 in such a way that the only way
to kill it is to ctrl-alt-F1 to a console window, and where I do a
"killall -9 dosbox" WHen I return to the X11 sessionthe screen size is
wrong, but xrandr tells me its 1280x800. Baloney. Its more like
720x480. Typing "xrandr -s 800x600" changes the screen size to 800x600,
then I can type "xrandr -s 1280x800" to return it to its proper display
size.
I've never found any log files that tell me what went wrong. Not the
Xorg.log, not /var/log/messages, nothing I can find....
This is the current output (the screen is fine). I doubt there's
anything here to suggest what the problem might be.
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1152 x 864, maximum 1152 x 864
default connected 1152x864+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1152x864 60.0*
1024x768 70.0 60.0
1024x576 60.0
960x600 60.0
960x540 60.0
800x600 60.0 56.0
768x576 60.0
720x576 60.0
856x480 60.0
800x480 60.0
720x480 61.0
640x480 67.0 60.0
720x400 70.0
512x384 60.0
400x300 60.0
320x240 61.0
yeah, but I'll bet that something else has changed it behind Xorg's back....
Issuing 2 "xrandr -s" commands (like I do) should restore it for you.
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