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fergalleahylife

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Registered: 2025-07-29

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Trinity Desktop Screen size keeps changing

Hello. I've just downloaded Q4OS, it's nice. I do have one little issue. Ok so i opted for the trinity desktop environment whic is nice but when i right click on the desktop to change the screen size it only changes for that session. When i reboot it keeps reverting to the original settings. So lets say default is 1920x1080, when i change it to 1024x768 it always goes back to the initial size.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Trinity Desktop Screen size keeps changing

Welcome to the forum

At first you shouldn't change native display resolution, it's not quite a clean action. If you want to increase fonts, icons and elements size you should apply screen scaling instead:
Control panel > system administration > screen scaling

If you want to change display resolution for some curious reason, run in terminal:
$ tderandrtray
an icon in system tray appears, right click and change resolution.

fergalleahylife

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Registered: 2025-07-29

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Re: Trinity Desktop Screen size keeps changing

Ok i tried what you said. the problem is that the screen size is too large for my monitor. The taskbar is out of range. I tried modding the grub menu to set the size to 1024x768. The font size on the boot is laarge but the second i login the size reverts to 1920x1080. I should point out I'm using a hdmi cable not a vga.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Trinity Desktop Screen size keeps changing

1920x1080 seems to be the native resolution of your monitor, we recommend you not to change it. Use screen scaling instead.

... the screen size is too large for my monitor. The taskbar is out of range.

Would you post a screenshot please ?

fergalleahylife

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Registered: 2025-07-29

Posts: 20

Re: Trinity Desktop Screen size keeps changing

Ok i figured it out. I right clicked the desktop, configure desktop, select display, chose your display settings, then select "apply settings on TDE startup" Thanks for you help. Much appreciated