inotifywait not detecting line changes in xfce4 config file

I am having issues where a Debian VM of mine in VMWare Workstation changes it's resolution to 1280x1392 pixel every time I enter fullscreen mode. Now I could change the resolution manually to 2560x1440px every time I exit and enter fullscreen mode, but would prefer to automate it. I first tried modifying the .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml file where the configuration is stored manually, but it does not apply the changes. The changes are neither applied if I use the xfconf-query command to set the resolution value. Something that does work to set the resolution from the command line is xrandr xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 2560x1440 Now I thought about setting up a script using inotifywait to monitor changes in display.xml. But my issue is that it doesn't seem to recognize the changes in the file... I ran the following command from the command line(Just to test if it even notices the changes): while inotifywait -m -e modify /home/myhomesir/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml; do whoami ;done Then I run md5sum display.xml to get the current md5sum of the settings file, exit and enter Fullscreen and run md5sum display.xml again to confirm that the file has changed: md5sum displays.xml 001c0796aba8c0e8b4ea28d59f2e5edc displays.xml md5sum displays.xml 322e7ea6ca9914caba6fa1365244b27a displays.xml Checking the Output of my inotifywait command, I dont get any output: while inotifywait -m -e delete /home/myhomedir/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/; do whoami;done Setting up watches. Watches established. Do you know why this is happening and not recognizing the changes? Two lines are being changed from what I have observed: diff displays.xml_wrong displays.xml_correct 9,10c9,10 --- > > Looking forward to any help. If you have any other suggestions, let me know. Thank you!