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Tapykapy

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Registered: 2026-02-27

Posts: 1

XRandR does not recognise my laptop display

I recently got a Dell latitude 5400 to run Arch Linux. Whenever I try to run the command xrandr in shell, I always get an error along the lines of

Cannot open display

This also happens whenever I try to initialize a window manager through Xinit or if I directly run the command for running the window manager in shell. I currently use a Wayland-based window manager and whenever I run xrandr I get a proper output  with all the possible resolutions. If anyone can please explain this mystery I would be really happy!!!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,365

Re: XRandR does not recognise my laptop display

xrandr will under no circumstances work on the console

pacman -Qs xorg

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