From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 16 10:02:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA14004 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:02:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13998 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA37902; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:01:46 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id KAA18571; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:01:46 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971216100149.007d0100@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: jcwells@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:01:49 +0000 To: grobin@accessv.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jason Wells Subject: Re: X-Windows desktop is larger than my screen. In-Reply-To: <34960014.FF1D9D5B@accessv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 23:14 12/15/97 -0500, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: >When I run X-windows the desktop is a few lines longer than my screen, >so the bottom portion is cut off and inaccessible with the mouse. I've >run XF86Config several times and tried a number of different settings >but it doesn't make any difference. How can I change the >resolution/desktop size? > >If its of any importance my video hardware consists of a Mach64 video >card with 1meg RAM and a DAEWOO CMC-1501BA monitor. That's all I know. Everyone heretofore has talked about window managers. Window managers can provide the virtual desktop, which is a desktop larger than your physical screen. You can fix the problem you have without learning about window managers by editing you /etc/XF86Config file. In subsection display, option virtual, there is a an (x,y) value which sets the size of the virtual display. Just change this to whatever you are using. For example, mine says 1024, 768. See man XF86Config Good luck, Jason Wells