Changing screen resolution

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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Bruce W. Bodnyk wrote:
| Hi!
|
| I just installed Ubuntu on a system at home. How do I change the screen
| resolution? Using the cntl-alt + and - keys seems to change the
| resolution but acts like the screen is being magnified.
|
| Thank!
| Bruce

Hi Bruce,
	are you working on a laptop or do you have a LCD panel?

In both cases you need to know that both of them have a peculiar design.
They only support ONE resolution. All the others (smaller) are simply
magnified to fit the screen, but yes, you can still change them either
as Matt suggested or using sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Fabio

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