Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question
Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and make sure you have "ViewPort 0 0" in each of the Subsection "Display" areas for your video card. See below. ---snip # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "ATI Rage Pro" Monitor "Compaq" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort0 0 #make sure you have this line EndSubsection EndSection snip-- On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi Steve, Did you get an answer for this ? I'd also like to have the Virtual screen always at the size of the current screen size. Removing the line Virtual in the XF86Config does not help... Thanks and regards, - regis, TheThingThatShouldNotBe wrote: I wonder if there is a way to mnake the Virtual screen to ALWAYS the same size as the current screen size... -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail
Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question - what's a viewport?
TheThingThatShouldNotBe wrote: Thanks for the reply Jon. unfortunately I don't know what a viewport is, so I would not know how to set it. Take a piece of cardboard bigger that your monitor screen, cut a rectangular hole, 4" wide by 3" high in it. Put the cardboard over your screen. The part of your screen that you can see is the viewport. To see everything on your swcreen you must move the viewport around. I've tried to illustrate this below, hope it's understandable. ASCII art, I hope this comes out ok, if not, you may have to open it in an ascii text editor. your virtual screen, say 1600x1200 ___ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --- your actuall screen, say 640x480 _ || || || || - Your actuall screen as a viewport into your virtual screen ___ | ___| | | || | | || | | || | | || | ---| | | | | | | | | --- HTH Bob J
Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question
Thanks Steve! I'll try that when I get home tonight! I wonder if there is a way to mnake the Virtual screen to ALWAYS the same size as the current screen size... Thanks again. --- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] If you know that you're not going to go back to using the larger resolutions, remove them from the same area where you worked with the Virtual stuff. By removing the larger resolutions, you'll solve the problem of the menubars being non-visible (and solve the Virtual problem at the same time)! Here's the explanation: XFree sees the larger resolutions mentioned in that section and figures you want that much screen real estate. When you switch resolutions, it figures you still want that real estate, you just want a "window" into it. By telling it that you only want the smaller resolution, it will get rid of the "window" behavior. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, you wrote: 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? If you know that you're not going to go back to using the larger resolutions, remove them from the same area where you worked with the Virtual stuff. By removing the larger resolutions, you'll solve the problem of the menubars being non-visible (and solve the Virtual problem at the same time)! Here's the explanation: XFree sees the larger resolutions mentioned in that section and figures you want that much screen real estate. When you switch resolutions, it figures you still want that real estate, you just want a "window" into it. By telling it that you only want the smaller resolution, it will get rid of the "window" behavior. You can also go in and edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and change the "viewport" option to "0 0" from whatever it currently is. John
Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question
Thanks for the reply Jon. unfortunately I don't know what a viewport is, so I would not know how to set it. -Dan --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You can also go in and edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and change the "viewport" option to "0 0" from whatever it currently is. John __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] KDE/XF86Config Question
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? If you know that you're not going to go back to using the larger resolutions, remove them from the same area where you worked with the Virtual stuff. By removing the larger resolutions, you'll solve the problem of the menubars being non-visible (and solve the Virtual problem at the same time)! Here's the explanation: XFree sees the larger resolutions mentioned in that section and figures you want that much screen real estate. When you switch resolutions, it figures you still want that real estate, you just want a "window" into it. By telling it that you only want the smaller resolution, it will get rid of the "window" behavior. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
