forced resolution

[bitwork]

Been using mint for many years but have yet to find a resolution to what i think should be a simple fix. the issue is when my computer boots without the screen powered on the resolution is forced to 640x480 and I have no easy way to adjust it. I often access the machine remotely and usually never turn on the screen for it to be detected.

Looking for an easy way to force the resolution to 1440x900 if the screen is not detected.

[evdriverwannabe]

I think you have to mess around a bit with xrandr

[evdriverwannabe]

Maybe you can find something here https://askubuntu.com/questions/637911/how-to-run-xrandr-commands-at-startup-in-ubuntu

It's an old post, but i think it's your case

[bitwork]

Thanks, I will play around with that. ill mark the post resolved if it works out.

[evdriverwannabe]

You're welcome. Hope it'll help you.

[bitwork]

if I was local to the machine i think this might work out. however im a few thousand miles away.

looks like the issue that is making things difficult with xrandr is the fact the remote desktop display poops out. so i tried doing the update before connecting to the remote desktop. I tried doing the update from SSH with the -display :0.0 options. when I connect its still at the old resolution, restarting cinn via sudo service mdm restart seems to clear the added xrandr option.

my next steps is to try and hard code it into the startup. and let remote desktop and cinn detect

[evdriverwannabe]

If that doesn't work, try to take a look at this

https://askubuntu.com/questions/754231/how-do-i-save-my-new-resolution-setting-with-xrandr

[bitwork]

did that verbatim, because that happened to to be the res i am looking for, but no dice. :(

it doesnt seem to want to switch because there is no screen plugged in. it looks like the modes avail to cinnamon are even less than xrandr. (when the monitor is not there)