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I have ubuntu 12.04 installed alonside windows in dual-boot. After installing the latest nvidia drives (304.64 I believe) the resolution dropped to 600x480 and it's the only option available in the display menu in Unity.

My monitor's resolution is 1360x768, how can I chage the resolution to that?

Thanks in advance.

hakuthehedgehog
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  • For get higher resolution in ubuntu 12.4 refer this - http://ab-webs.blogspot.in/2013/01/ubuntu-shows-only-800600-resolution-in.html –  Feb 04 '13 at 05:46

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I know I'm waaaaay late to party, but here is my answer:

If you can't change screen resolution from display menu, try changing it from Terminal! (Command-Line).

You can achieve this by running these commands:

Enumerate the names of all your video outputs, and the possible resolutions for those currently connected to a monitor:

xrandr -q

Choose the name of the output you wish to change the resolution of, and:

xrandr --output <OUTPUT> --mode 1024x768

Note: If running from a text terminal, that is not running in gfx environment, you'll have to add a -d :0 parameter, i.e:

xrandr -d :0 -q
xrandr -d :0 --output <OUTPUT> --mode 1024x768

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ahmedg
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My wife's profile was doing something very similar (resolution was smaller than it should be and I couldn't fixed it through system settings). I executed rm ~/.config/monitors.xml and logged and back in and it was fixed.

I haven't seen any negative effects, but if you decide to do this realize it might scramble something else. I don't know what else might use this file.

colboynik
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