First run: export DISPLAY=:0 then run xrandr Just tried it and it worked for me. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Berg (Contractor) Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:15 AM To: SL Users Subject: Get screen resolution from remote system I'm searching for a command line utility of some fashion to let me get the Xwindows screen resolution from a remote system. What I'd like is very simply a command, utility, log entry that I can reliably tell that "System X, over there on the network, is running an Xwindows session at 1920x1080." Does anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish this? So far xrandr doesn't seem to let me do it. There's lots of "Setting mode" entries in /var/log/Xorg.0.log but no easy way to tell if that's the actual resolution currently running. -- Stephen Berg Systems Administrator NRL Code: 7320 Office: 228-688-5738 [log in to unmask]