Hello all,
On this last update my laptop rebooted and my resolution settings were gone, as well as my signal-desktop theme settings. I fixed the resolution with xrandr but didn’t save the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and rebooted. The screen setting was saved and I was able to login without any issues.
The question is where Manjaro saves the settings for xrandr, because I didn’t save it.
As a side question, is the removal or resetting of the signal theme and resolution part of the update / upgrade process? How is that handled via the update process?
I looked at the i3WM gitlab for any clues to the process but did not really find anything that stood out to
me.
xrandr doesn’t save anything, it modifies the state of the current Xorg session. So if those settings were preserved across reboots, then something else did save them.
I’d still like to know where exactly the initial screen resolution is kept because I’ve been unable to find it. If I didn’t save it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ then where the heck it is coming from? Only thing I can think is from the initial install of Manajro itself.
If you don’t have the need for creating configs on the fly you use arandr to create a script which can the be launched by means of adding it to the config.
arandr saves a shell script in ~/.screenlayout which can be launched at will.