2011-06-09, 01:37
vash265 Wrote:I wanted to keep my emulator resolution as it was so it didn't distort the game screen. However, your other two suggestions set me off on the right path.Thank you for the complement of information about xrandr. It will be useful for the other users.
All I had to do was disable my laptop monitor:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
This fixed the problem. To ensure it's off when I launch one of the emulators, I just added it to the top line of my script (before I even killed XBMC). That way XBMC didn't default back to the laptop's resolution when it resumed.
Note that the name of the monitor (LVDS1) may differ if you're looking at this at some point in the future. To find out what your monitor is called, type
xrandr -q
That will show a list of all the available monitors with their respective resolutions. LVDS1 is the default name for laptop monitors with intel drivers.