screen and window

[<john@paradise-it.com.au>]

In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config find the bit that looks a bit like
this:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "s"
    Monitor     "l"
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024"  "1024x768"  "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes        "1280x1024"  "1024x768"  "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes        "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

It's the lines labeled "Modes", you just have to re-arrange them to
start in the resolution you want, if you just want to change
resolution. If you want to change the actual size of the virtual
desktop add a line like

Virtual     800 600

just after the "ViewPort" lines.

Cya John.


Zheng Wang writes:
 > Hi, everybody,
 > I just installed debian and ran X. The problem I have is that the desktop 
 > itself is much big than the screen. So if I open a window, this window
 > perhaps is not visible at all. I have to move my mouse around to find it. 
 > I tried Ctrl+alt+"+" (told by Brian). It reduce the font and also the
 > visible screen size, but the problem remain unsolved. Does anybody have
 > this kind of problem.
 > 
 > Zheng Wang, Ph. D
 > Department of Statistics and Applied Probability 
 > University of California, Santa Barbara
 > E-mail: zwang@pstat.ucsb.edu; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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