From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 16 14:16:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA05245 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from emerald.accessv.com (emerald.accessv.com [206.221.248.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05237 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grobin@accessv.com) Received: from accessv.com (port184-87.accessv.com [209.50.87.184]) by emerald.accessv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10892; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:16:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3496FDA7.CEC3CE06@accessv.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:16:07 -0500 From: Geoffrey Robinson Reply-To: grobin@accessv.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Wells CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Windows desktop is larger than my screen. References: <3.0.3.32.19971216100149.007d0100@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Wells wrote: > > At 23:14 12/15/97 -0500, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > >When I run X-windows the desktop is a few lines longer than my screen, > >so the bottom portion is cut off and inaccessible with the mouse. I've > >run XF86Config several times and tried a number of different settings > >but it doesn't make any difference. How can I change the > >resolution/desktop size? > > > >If its of any importance my video hardware consists of a Mach64 video > >card with 1meg RAM and a DAEWOO CMC-1501BA monitor. That's all I know. > > Everyone heretofore has talked about window managers. Window managers can > provide the virtual desktop, which is a desktop larger than your physical > screen. > > You can fix the problem you have without learning about window managers by > editing you /etc/XF86Config file. In subsection display, option virtual, > there is a an (x,y) value which sets the size of the virtual display. Just > change this to whatever you are using. For example, mine says 1024, 768. > > See man XF86Config There is no virtual line in my XF86Config. Should I add it? BTW: I can't seem to set it to 800X600. The resolution appears the same weather or not I set the monitor to 800X600 or 640X480 in XF86Setup. In fact, I'm not even sure I'm running the right X-Windows. Somebody told me that it looks very similar to Win'95 and there is a picture of it in the Walnut Creek CDROM catalog that doesn't resemble what I have either. Am I using the wrong program? --- Geoffrey Robinson grobin@accessv.com Oakville, Ontario, Canada.