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Re: floating screen



"Gruessle" <debian@orces.com> writes:

> I did goggle for floating screen and floating display I don't know
> what else to look for you tell me what you would call this.
>
> If I change resolution with "Ctrl Alt + or -" to a smaller
> resolution I do get bigger everything, but my display bust out of
> the screen boundaries and when I move my mouse to one side it will
> float over so that I can see the side which I moved the mouse too.

"Right, XFree86 works that way."

> So how do fix this at the moment I have too small fonts, can't read
> the stuff, need to get to 1024x768 resolution

If that's what you really want, you can edit your XF86Config file (or
use 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86') to not use higher-resolution
display modes.  I personally generally go for using larger fonts on
higher-resolution displays.

-- 
David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
	-- Abra Mitchell



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