Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:01:49 +0000 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: grobin@accessv.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Windows desktop is larger than my screen. Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971216100149.007d0100@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <34960014.FF1D9D5B@accessv.com>
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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
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