Setup monitor resolution with X11 file

Facing a wrong resolution that is not the correct for you monitor. One option is to set the resolution using xrandr, but xrandr is just for that session. When the computer is rebooted the resolutions will be lost.

There is an easy why to fix that with 10-monitor.conf. Here is a example of the file:

You need to change the **identifier**, you can find out the identifier by running this command in you terminal:

The output will be something like this

In the output the second line has the identifier.

That's it. Now just create the file in **/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/** make sure to name the file 10-monitor.conf. Then just restart your computer, if everything goes well you will see that the resolution is OK.

Examples

Let's say you have a computer with two video outputs, but you want to use just one of them it will be something like

Or can be like

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