On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:15:41 -0500 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
Well, I made the mistake of tinkering with the Monitor & Display settings in the Control Center on my other machine, expecting that the 'Test Settings' button would work like the 'Test' button in the Configure Desktop => Screen Saver does, but no; 'Test Settings' seems to have stored its settings somewhere, there is no evident way to revert the display, and further tinkering has now the monitor is totally unreadable. (I'd provide a screenshot, but as usual, my old Samsung Galaxy 6 phone can't be read by Trinity.)
Fortunately, I can ssh into the broken machine from this one, but I have no idea where Monitor & Display stores its misconfiguration files.
Does someone know where they would be?
Do you have anything in the directory ~/.trinity/share/config/displayconfig/ ?
Also, depending on *why* you can't read the screen, it may be possible to force-change the current display setup back to something more useful using xrandr at the command line through your SSH session, but read the man page first as it isn't the simplest thing to use.
E. Liddell