From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 08:21:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C9D16A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E440843FDD for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 08:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.14]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:23:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3F857CCE.10401@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:20:46 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Talbot References: <001101c38e77$136a6ca0$71624541@hppav> In-Reply-To: <001101c38e77$136a6ca0$71624541@hppav> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Oct 2003 15:23:50.0578 (UTC) FILETIME=[5771F920:01C38E79] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Screen too big" (was: No Subj) X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:21:20 -0000 Talbot wrote: >Greetings >I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx. The desktop environment on my screen "seems" to be at least four times as big as it should be, displaying only the top left portion of the desktop. > >The strange part of this problem is that the install program displays all of the display option screens in the correct size and font. > >Any advice to get me going will be appreciated. > >C. W. Talbot >cwtalbot@hotmail.com > Hi, C.W., Glad to hear you got everything working! Someone is likely to mention to you that this forum (newbies@) is more of a place for people to discuss their experiences than to ask questions...the place for that it the questions@ list. However, I'll give you a hint. This is called a 'virtual desktop', and the size is set in your XFree86 Config file after the keyword "Virtual." But, I'll also mention, it's the m/l *normal* way that XFree runs a desktop. It could just be that that *other* company made us get used to something different. Have a great day, Kevin Kinsey Daleco, S.P.