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Ashwin Nanjappa
Asked: 2014-09-02 22:16:36 +0800 CST

How to find resolution of TTY I'm using?

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I can get to a TTY in Ubuntu by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. Once I'm at a shell in this TTY, how can I find out what is the resolution of this TTY?

Note that the GRUB_GFXMODE in my /etc/default/grub file is commented out. So, I cannot find out the resolution from there.

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1 Answers

  1. Try this in your current terminal:

    stty size

    If you want to know the resolution of another terminal use this:

    stty -F /dev/tty1 size

    Or for an ssh session:

    stty -F /dev/pts/1 size

    Another option is to use a tool called resize:

    resize

    Sample output:

    COLUMNS=146;
LINES=43;
export COLUMNS LINES;
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