How to change resolution of login screen (i.e. gdm)?

[Richard Mancusi]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:12, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On my old (Fedora) system when I changed the system resolution it
> changed it for everything, including the gnome login screen.  This
> doesn't seem to happen with Ubuntu, the login screen stays obstinately
> at a rather low (and grotty) resolution and only when the user desktop
> starts up does it switch to my normal 1600x1200.
>
> Is there no way to avoid the resolution switch between logon and user
> desktop?
>
> --
> Chris Green

System/Administration/Startup-Manager
If Startup-Manager isn't there, install via:
System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager

You can do many things there including limiting the number of
kernels shown at boot (Advance tab).  This was a question from
a different thread.

-rich