From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 13:23:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schmoo.tclme.org (schmoo.tclme.org [208.24.53.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E97E37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 26075 invoked by uid 1014); 27 Apr 2001 20:23:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.52.135) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 20:23:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3AE9D77D.75E3354B@tclme.org> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:33:01 -0500 From: Bob Greene Organization: tclme.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harkirat Singh Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Size / Resize - Toshiba Satellite 2800/2805 series References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harkirat Singh wrote: > > In Xsession it is fine, though the problem is in normal session, how do I > get fish hooks in that?? > > -Harkirat > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Bob Greene wrote: > > > Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > > > > > I have this machine running release 4.2, in Xsession I get full > > > > screen but without X I get just 1/4th of the screen, it is in the centre > > > > and rest of the area is dark. I want to know how can I increase the > > > > display so that I can see content in full screen. Also is there any way to > > > > change the font size also. > > > > > > I believe this is a limitation of the Toshiba laptop. I have one too. > > > > > > > Use fish hooks on each corner of the visible window and pull until you > > stretch it to your favorite screen size. ;-) > > > > Are you sure that you're using the correct resolution? Laptop displays > > have fixed pixel sizes and will reduce the display to match the lower > > resolution. > > I guess I really wasn't paying attention. In text mode, there are no corners to grab. Look at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html as well as the other links on that page. -- Bob Greene rgreene@TclMe.org Pull my finger for my public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message