Steve, I'm on my windows machine at work, so I don't know the exact details
of the config file, but in your /etc/X11 directory there is a file called
XF86Config or XF86Config.4 or -4 for X version 4.0
Inside this file (use a text editor) there is a section for the colour depth
and screen modes, etc... I believe it's in a section called "Screen"...
anyway, there's a couple subsections called "Display".
In this you can change the "Viewport" if there is one. If there isn't,
adding "Viewport" (without the quotes) and then the ration you want like 1 0
or 2 0, then you should get a virtual sized desktop the next time you
restart X. As for the colour depth, before those "Display" subsections, add
the line DefaultColorDepth 24 or 32 or whatever depth you want as default.
I'm sorry that this is very wordy and very confusing. I should look up a
config file for you...
#---------------
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "3Dfx Interactive Voodoo3"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
#--------------------
This is just an example... see above where it says "ViewPort 0 0"... that's
the virtual desktop of NONE, so there is no virtual desktop. If you already
have that line - experiment with it... even try commenting it out.
Good Luck.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Weltman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 7:33 PM
To: Newbie List
Subject: [newbie] X-Window display settings
Hi...I have a IBM TP600 running Mandrake 7.02, 96MB RAM, 6GB HD, 2M
video ram, 1024X764X16million colors (24 bit) without difficulties,
unsure of other details...but I can check if asked specifically...
I am looking to see if there's a way to increase the number of colors
(color depth?) so that I can display HP OpenView correctly. Some of the
icons appear black as opposed to colored. Also, I can't find any
settings to allow a "virtual" desktop type of sizing arrangement. I
need a larger display area, because the NMS display wants to use
something like 1152X860 or close to that. I know that this sounds too
"windoz-ish", but I am new at Linux, but starting to really enjoy what
it can do (and fixing whatever I can, that it cannot currently).
Thanks for your time!!
Steve Weltman
