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egandt
August 5th, 2016, 11:04 PM
In 16.04LTS in VMWARE if I run X -configure to generate an xorg.conf file it fails to execute, yet X works. If I copy one from X 14.04 that works, it is ignored. I need to set the screen size to 3320x1050 yet there is no way to do this in 16.04 that I can discover except via xrandr

/usr/bin/xrandr --newmode "3320x1050_60.00" 290.00 3320 3528 3880 4440 1050 1053 1063 1089 -hsync +vsync
/usr/bin/xrandr --addmode Virtual1 3320x1050_60.00
/usr/bin/xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 3320x1050_60.00


However while its can be added to the .xprofile and should be located there it does not work as the first statement if in .xprofile is ignored, so it fails. As such as of now I have no way to ensure that when I login the screen goes to the required resolution of 3320x1050. This worked great in 12.04 and 14.04, why is 16.04 ignoring the xorg.conf if present and also is unable to construct a new one?

Thanks,
ERIC