Peter Eddy wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
My daughter uses our computer for games and such thus uses
ctrl+alt+(num+) to change the resolution to suit her needs and my
wife likes a different resolution than my daughter. In both cases,
the total screen isn't shown on the monitor, just part of it and
message dialog boxes can be missed.
You can specify "novirtual" in XF86Config to get rid of that silly
virtual desktop. Then I think X will behave as you'd expect, the
boundary of your desktop at all modes is then the same as your monitor.
Some WWW sites don't work to well at higher resolutions.
If it's the size of the text that's a problem and you're using
mozilla, you can just type Ctrl +/Ctrl - to make the text larger or
smaller. It doesn't seem like changing the screen resolution out to be
necessary to view a web page.
Peter
If you use gnome then go to the Main Menu (on task bar) | Preferences |
Display Resolution to set a different resolution it does not have the
virtual desktop issue, and I believe that is a per-user setting change
since it gets saved in ~/.gconfd/saved_state
Chris
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