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I use Ubuntu GNOME with Nvidia graphic card (two HDMI and one DVI output). My monitor is connected through VGA - DVI adapter and work natively in 1920x1080.

  • Since I was unable to change my screen resolution, I spent enormous amount of time to play with xrandr command as well as trying different graphic drivers.

  • I've tried to provide resolution in monitors.xml as suggested here, but it seems that it doesn't help.

Finally, I get it - since Ubuntu didn't recognize my monitor, the only I needed was to edit

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and set Horizontal and Vertical refreshing rate.

After restart, I was able to finally change my monitor resolution in both - gnome-control-center as well as 'NVIDIA X Server Settings'. There was no error, so I thought that settings are saved properly.

However, after rebooting my system... I saw resolution 1024x768. I've tried to reinstall gnome-control-center, but it doesn't help - each time when I reboot, I need to manually go to 'Displays' and set resolution back.

  • I've tried to add xrandr commands to startup programs, but it seems that my screen misbehaves - I see black background.

  • This idea (to use xrandr as startup process) is also mentioned here, but it seems that it works only after booting Gnome - otherwise screen is stretched or misbehaves.

Is there any solution to save mentioned settings 'by hard' (is it a bug in Gnome?).

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  • I've tried to add xrandr --output DVI-I-0 --rate 60 --mode 1920x1080 --fb 1920x1080 to /etc/init.d/rc.local, /etc/rc.local, ~/.xprofile, /etc/gdm/Init/Default and create my custom scripts. Nothing helps. – matandked Oct 22 '14 at 15:17
  • I checked - there's no such problems in KDE and MATE (lightdm and kdm) - screen resolution is constantly equal to 1920x1080 (seems that mentioned above script with xrandr works). Is it a bug in Gnome? – matandked Oct 22 '14 at 17:16

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