On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 04:04 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > Whenever I open an application it is too big for my desktop (Gnome). > There are a couple of problems with this. If I resize it many of the > controls are obscured. Then there are the non resizable apps. > > I think that this has something to do with the fact that the first > time I managed to get X to start was with an XF86Config-4 cribbed from > Knoppix. It had the resolution insanely high. I believe that what > happened was that when X was first stated sawmill was automaticaly > configured using the insanely high Knoppix resolution. > > I'd like to fix this. >
Is it also the case that the whole desktop is larger than the screen, or only the applications? (By mousing around along the edges of the screen, do you seem to move around a desktop bigger than your screen size, or does the desktop size match the screen?) I forgot that I don't currently have a linux machine with X set up, so I can't directly compare my files, but what does your "Modes" line say under subsection "Display" of "Screen"? What about "ViewPort" and "Virtual"? Are you running X directly from x/k/gdm? I wonder if you might see some useful diagnostics if you ran startx directly from the commandline, rather than having a GUI come up directly. You could even pipe stdout and stderr from startx to a file, then view that file once X has started up. > ----------------------------------------- > Please leave this. It is a filter term. > ferulebezel > ----------------------------------------- > Mark Healey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don't bothor CCing or emailing this address. Since spammers seem to be harvesting > this > list anything that doesn't come from the list server is assumed to be spam and > deleted. > ASUS A87V8X mobo w AMD Athalon > Broadcom 4401 onboard nic > with static IP Address > ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Video card. > Sampo Alphascan 17mx monitor > using the "vesa" module > > -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
