Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:17:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: grobin@accessv.com Cc: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Windows desktop is larger than my screen. Message-ID: <19971217091755.40614@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3496FDA7.CEC3CE06@accessv.com>; from Geoffrey Robinson on Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 05:16:07PM -0500 References: <3.0.3.32.19971216100149.007d0100@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> <3496FDA7.CEC3CE06@accessv.com>
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On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 05:16:07PM -0500, Geoffrey Robinson wrote:
> Jason Wells wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> There is no virtual line in my XF86Config. Should I add it?
>
> BTW: I can't seem to set it to 800X600. The resolution appears the same
> weather or not I set the monitor to 800X600 or 640X480 in XF86Setup.
Your /etc/XF86config file should contain a number of Screen sections,
usually at the end. I'm removing the contents of the ones that don't
apply. They should look something like:
# The Colour SVGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "Eizo 9500"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The 16-color VGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga16"
...
EndSection
# The Mono server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga2"
...
EndSection
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "ATI Graphics Ultra Pro"
Monitor "Eizo 9500"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" # "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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.
Next, it will take the first entry in the Mode line associated with
the driver and depth. In this example, the svga driver will come up
with 640x480, and the accel driver will come up with 1024x768. If you
want to change, press Ctrl-Alt-Keypad + or Ctrl-Alt-Keypad - (the +
and - signs on the keypad to the right of the keyboard proper. The +
and - signs on the keyboard won't work here). This will scroll
through the list of available resolutions. If the display screws up,
go back. You could damage your monitor if you leave the display in
that state.
> 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.
Greg
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