[plug] virtual screen size

[Chris Griffin]

I am running plain old RedHat 5.2 and it does not work on that either.


At 09:04 3/02/99 , you wrote:
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>Speakin of screen sizes...
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>I am running KDE.  When I press ctl alt + or ctl alt - nothing hapens.  I
>have 3 different modes in X86Config.  Does KDE disable this function?
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>Rob Hall
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
>> Of Matt Kemner
>> Sent: 03 February 1999 08:32
>> To: plug at linux.org.au
>> Subject: Re: [plug] virtual screen size
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 mike at tnet.com.au wrote:
>> >
>> > > I am having some problems with X.  I am trying to get X to just use my
>> > > screen size without having a virtual screen larger than the
>> screen size.
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ray gerhard replied:
>>
>> > and comment out (ie: put a # at the start of the line) anything with the
>> > word "Virtual" in the line.
>>
>> And under section "Screen"
>> wherever you have "Modes", you need to make sure you remove any modes
>> higher than the one you're using..
>> eg. if you're running at 800x600 and the modes say:
>>      Modes   "800x600" "1024x768" "1152x900"
>> or something like that, delete the "1024x768" and "1152x900" because
>> X will set your virtual screen to the largest mode there (so you can
>> Control-ALT-+ to them and back without losing any of your desktop)
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>> P.S. this very question came up less than 3 weeks ago - check the archives
>> at:
>>
>http://www.cantech.net.au/plug/01-1999/255.html
>(that's the question, the next 3 messages are replies)

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