From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 16 17:30:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20589 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA20581 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA27678; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:00:12 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971217120012.29483@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:00:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: grobin@accessv.com 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> <3496FDA7.CEC3CE06@accessv.com> <19971217091755.40614@lemis.com> <34971C23.B9B0D28@accessv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <34971C23.B9B0D28@accessv.com>; from Geoffrey Robinson on Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 07:26:11PM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 07:26:11PM -0500, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > > In my /etc/XF86Config for the accel driver, in fact for all of the > screen sections, all of the modes listed "640x480" only. I added > "800x600" to each one plus the ViewPort line but it didn't make any > difference. Did you restart X and try ctrl-alt-+ etc? If so, let's see your XF86Config. >> Which one do you choose? You don't, your link /usr/X11R6/bin/X does >> it for you. If it's pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel, it'll look at >> the "accel" driver. If it's pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsvga, it'll >> look at the "svga" driver. Normally it will choose 8 bits per pixel, >> unless you change the config file or start with a -bpp flag. > > Mine points to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64. Dose that mean it will go to > the accel driver? I think so. >>> 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? >> >> The appearance of the desktop is created by the window manager, not >> the X server. Take a look in your .xinitrc and tell me what you see. >> It looks as if you might be starting fvwm95. > > There is no file called .xinitrc anywhere on my system. How are you starting X? In any case, let's see the output of this command when you're running X: $ ps aux | grep wm Greg