Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:00:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: grobin@accessv.com Cc: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: X-Windows desktop is larger than my screen. Message-ID: <19971217120012.29483@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34971C23.B9B0D28@accessv.com>; from Geoffrey Robinson on Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 07:26:11PM -0500 References: <3.0.3.32.19971216100149.007d0100@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> <3496FDA7.CEC3CE06@accessv.com> <19971217091755.40614@lemis.com> <34971C23.B9B0D28@accessv.com>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 07:26:11PM -0500, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > > In my /etc/XF86Config for the accel driver, in fact for all of the > screen sections, all of the modes listed "640x480" only. I added > "800x600" to each one plus the ViewPort line but it didn't make any > difference. Did you restart X and try ctrl-alt-+ etc? If so, let's see your XF86Config. >> Which one do you choose? You don't, your link /usr/X11R6/bin/X does >> it for you. If it's pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel, it'll look at >> the "accel" driver. If it's pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsvga, it'll >> look at the "svga" driver. Normally it will choose 8 bits per pixel, >> unless you change the config file or start with a -bpp <depth> flag. > > Mine points to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64. Dose that mean it will go to > the accel driver? I think so. >>> In fact, I'm not even sure I'm running the right X-Windows. Somebody >>> told me that it looks very similar to Win'95 and there is a picture of >>> it in the Walnut Creek CDROM catalog that doesn't resemble what I have >>> either. Am I using the wrong program? >> >> The appearance of the desktop is created by the window manager, not >> the X server. Take a look in your .xinitrc and tell me what you see. >> It looks as if you might be starting fvwm95. > > There is no file called .xinitrc anywhere on my system. How are you starting X? In any case, let's see the output of this command when you're running X: $ ps aux | grep wm Greg
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