run "Xconfigurator"
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From: alann <
>TheThingThatShouldNotBe Aboleth wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Currently my monitor is set to a very high resolution
>> which works well, but it's only 17" and everything
>> looks kinda small.
>>
>> Apparently the default Virtual Screen Size is maxed
>> out so that when I set the screen size down to
>> something that looks good like 800X600 or 1264X768 (or
>> whatever it is) I still have this huge virtual screen.
>>
>> When I add the Virtual line in XF86Config to tone
>> down the realestate, the KDE menu bars go away!
>>
>> Is there some config setting for KDE that I need to
>> change also?
>>
>> -Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
>I've had this happen also, and I'm paging thru my notes and cannot find
>what I did.
>
>SOrry. I'll keep looking. But upon install, there is a place in
>Xconfigurator that asks
>do you want your desktop to be bigger than your screen ( or something
>like this ).
>
>When it happened to me, I didn't check ( or uncheck ) this.
>
>There's a way to fix it.. Thats one thing I've learned with Linux.
>There's ALWAYS a way. It's probably not obvious until you do it, then
>you say,
>duh...
>
>I don't think it's a KDE thing. Look along the lines of /etc/XF86
>files..
>
>BTW, you did try cntl-alt-minus right?
>
>This shrinks the screen sometimes..
>
>Alan
