[Bug 48777] Re: [Bug 48777] Re: No GUI way to change screen resolution in Kubuntu

[Abhaha]

If you are having trouble with the GUI--if it is gone screwy on you--one way
that may help is if you create a different user. My boyfriend had the GUI go
bonkers on him in Mandrake and he simply created a new user ID and it fixed
it. Then he deleted the old user name. If you do that though, make sure to
take all your data off the old user account before you try it.

I have a number of external USB drives and devices and it was easy to get
the data off of it recently when my home partition was way too full.

Some people have told me that if settings are made in the GUI, they may tend
to persist. For that reason many prefer the command line for some
adjustments.

I also noticed that when I was configuring the screen resolution, it asked
me if I wanted to use the gnome screen tool or the KDE tool. I installed
both Ubuntu and Kubuntu so that I had the option of using the KDE window
manager. I installed UBUNTU first, so when I set up KDE, I used what I
thought was the Gnome tool for consistency. On one install I switched it for
KDE after installing Kubuntu and I had bad results. I wish I could remember
the exact name of that, but I installed Ubuntu first and since that was
Gnome, that was the one I chose initially.

The first time I ran into trouble, I just reinstalled everything since I had
no data--that fixed it.

BTW, maybe it would help to install Easy Ubuntu? That tool has drivers in it
for Nvidia and ATI video cards.   http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/get.html


Abha

On 9/19/06, Redge <redge.online at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have have trouble getting KDE to accept the changes I'm trying to make
> to the screen and driver settings. After I've selected the correct
> versions, if I can click on apply in the first place, it usually does
> nothing, and the settings aren't changed.
>
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> No GUI way to change screen resolution in Kubuntu
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/48777
>

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No GUI way to change screen resolution in Kubuntu
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48777