Screen resolution on per user base

ashu.wifi · 07-24-2013, 03:14 AM

Hi

For some reason i want to set different screen res. for each normal user on this system suppose i want 800x600 for userA and 1028x768 for userB.Please tell me how to do it as i have done googling but no luck so far :@

i need to do this via configuring files pls tell me which file to look i 9 it can be done via prefernces>display but i want to do this via file

Thanks

pan64 · 07-24-2013, 05:19 AM

I do not really understand why do you need that. Anyway, here is a tip (not tested):
taken from man xorg.conf:

Quote:

Xorg uses a configuration file called xorg.conf and files ending in the
suffix .conf from the directory xorg.conf.d for its initial setup. The
xorg.conf configuration file is searched for in the following places
when the server is started as a normal user:

/etc/X11/<cmdline>
/usr/etc/X11/<cmdline>
/etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG
/usr/etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/xorg.conf
/usr/etc/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>
/usr/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>
/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf

Based on this you can try to set the variable XORGCONFIG on login, so can be different for every user.

ashu.wifi · 07-24-2013, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

I do not really understand why do you need that. Anyway, here is a tip (not tested):
taken from man xorg.conf:

Based on this you can try to set the variable XORGCONFIG on login, so can be different for every user.

how to set that variable i dont know man

pan64 · 07-25-2013, 12:33 AM

you need to ckeck the man page of bash, see how login works and how to use variables.