Suggestions for preventing ultra-hi monitor resolution

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Tom Wolfe wrote:

> Any suggestions for how to prevent clients from having excessively high 
> resolution, e.g. one of my clients ends up with 1920*1440 which is almost 
> unreadable.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> [default]
> X_MODE_0 =1024x768
> 
> in  /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf but for some reason this doesn't 
> work on this client. I also tried sudo ltsp-update-image in case that 
> needed to be done, but still resolution remains 1920x1440 on this client.

Are you sure 1024x768 is an available mode?  I imagine the above only works
if it is.  If you know how to login on the thin client console you could
take a look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see what modes are available.

Gavin