From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 8:32:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E739E37B403 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:32:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 6 May 2002 11:31:55 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id DFE3BBA05; Mon, 6 May 2002 11:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "J.J.Rijpkema" , Subject: Re: KDE Display Manager Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 11:31:28 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <000001c1f50f$931cb050$9600000a@pluto> In-Reply-To: <000001c1f50f$931cb050$9600000a@pluto> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020506153128.DFE3BBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's because KDE doesn't actually control your screen settings; that's handled in the underlying X layer, which is who is also doing the weird scrolling effect. First, try doing CNTL-ALT-keypad + to cycle through the builtin screen resolutions and see if any of them behave more sensibly. If they do, you can edit your XF86Config file to make that setting the default. On Monday 06 May 2002 11:06 am, J.J.Rijpkema wrote: | Hello, | | I am a newbie and have a question about KDE Display Manager. | I have installed KDE and it looks find, but the only thing is that the | desktop is bigger than my monitor. | That is, I have to move the mouse to the top of the screen and than the | screen moves up and than I see the top. | The same thing for the bottom of the screen, first I have to move the | mouse down to the bottom, and than the screen moves down, | so I can see the taskbar.(and the left and the right side of screen) | I have read the manual of installation of KDE, but I can't find anything | that says how to adjust your screen settings. | Hope that anyone can help me with this. | | Greetings | | J.J.Rijpkema -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message