Re: KDE problem
"Tran Tuan Anh" <trantuan@comp.nus.edu.sg> writes:
> I managed to bring up KDE, however there are few problems.
>
> The resolution of screen is 1400*1200 which is too big, could anyone
> tell me how to resize?
FWIW, in my (admittedly very limited) experience with KDE, it does a
very good job of respecting the X server's concept of the physical
display size; IMHO, you don't actually want a lower resolution, you
want more pixels used for things. My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file
contains "DisplaySize 287 215" in the relevant Monitor section to tell
X that my laptop's display is 287x215 mm (close to 11x8.5 inches), and
KDE applications (at least Konqueror) come up with very pretty fonts
at the correct display resolution (124 dpi at 1400x1050).
...are you on a laptop? I ask because the only time I've ever seen a
1400-pixel-wide display is on laptops. On laptops you have the
additional problem that, unless you use the physical size of the LCD
display as the display resolution, you either get only part of the
screen used or one "pixel" takes up something like one-and-a-third
display pixels, and it looks fuzzy and ugly on the LCD.
> and now when I boot system up the login screen is in graphic not
> text.. and I did not do anything... how could I change it back to
> text login?
The best answer is "uninstall your display manager", probably kdm in
this case.
> also I cannot use Alt F2, Alt F3 etc to switch to another virtual consoles
> in KDE :(
Ctrl+Alt+Fn should work.
[Aside: I recently acquired a spare monitor to use with the laptop at
work. Turns out the laptop wants to run the monitor at a 2048x1536
resolution, but with that defined screen size this turns into around
180 dpi. While this is wrong, the programs that respect it look very
pretty. The one thing that actively ignores it is Mozilla, which
thinks device points are a good thing to describe font sizes in; 16
pixels is a fine height on the LCD but too tiny on the monitor. Hence
the playing with KDE 3.1 and Konqueror, which believes in the
advertised display resolution and so also looks very pretty now.]
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