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In a desktop application, I need to detect monitor resolution from time to time. The code is like:

Display *d;
Screen *s;
d = XOpenDisplay(":0");
if (NULL == d) {
    g_print("XOpenDisplay failed\n");
    return;
}
s = DefaultScreenOfDisplay(d);
if (NULL == s) {
    g_print("DefaultScreenOfDisplay failed\n");
    return;
}

g_print("Display size: %dx%d\n", s->width, s->height);

But another requirement needs me to turn off lightdm service and X server too, which this piece of code depends on.

Is there other method to detect resolution without Xlib support? Thanks

user297907
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  • Have you looked at `xrandr`? – ctrl-alt-delor Jul 02 '18 at 11:27
  • With lightdm off, xrandr shows "Can't open display". So I figure it depends on X11 too? – user297907 Jul 02 '18 at 11:32
  • Oh you are turning X11 off as well. Can you make this clear in the question. (you don't need a display manager to run X11, so we just assumed that you were still running X11). – ctrl-alt-delor Jul 02 '18 at 11:40
  • Actually I'm doing this to avoid a confliction between my app and something in lightdm service. I'm not sure if it's the display manager or X11 itself. So I want to turn them all off. – user297907 Jul 02 '18 at 11:50

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Finding the (native/maximum) monitor resolution is possible even without an X server by querying the EDID information directly. See How to get EDID for a single monitor?. Experience may vary depending on graphics card and drivers.

Hermann
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You could try the command xrandr