[CentOS] 1600x900 not available
Giles Coochey
giles at coochey.net
Wed Jan 10 14:54:56 UTC 2018
On 10/01/2018 14:43, Sean Smith wrote:
> My laptop is a Dell XPS-13 running CentOS 7. It has a 13" 1920x1080
> screen and it's a bit difficult for my mid-40s eyesight. Fedora and
> Debian, on this laptop, give me the option of choosing 1600x900 which
> is much easier for me to read but CentOS doesn't show this resolution
> as available.
>
> I followed the steps I found in a post on stackexchange using xrandr,
> substituting 1600x900 where applicable and it worked but, once I
> rebooted, it went back to 1920x1080 with no 1600x900 option in
> settings-display.
>
> Is there a way I can add 1600x900 resolution the list of available
> resolutions in settings-display?
Bit of a generic answer, and not a solution, but the problem for you
isn't the resolution, it is the DPI you have set, isn't there a way for
you to change the DPI without losing out on the quality of the screen?
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