On Saturday 02 December 2006 15:09, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 10:27 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > > I have core6 installed and running and am trying to personalize various > > things and that brings me to my desktop view settings. > > Right now, by default - things come up at 1600x1200. Which > > makes > > everything very tiny. I want to change that so I can read > > things and so > > I went to the config in KDE and changed it to 1024xxxx . And > > that > > worked fine. Everything was the right size and I was impressed. > > > > Than I rebooted the machine and when I logged in again, (to KDE) > > things > > were back at 1600x1200. > > > > How can I get my 1024x... setting to stay. Not to change when I > > log > > out? > > > > -- > > Ted Gervais <ve1drg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. > Locate the "Screen" section. > Remove the "1600x1200" part. [1] > > - Gilboa > [1] The section should look something like this: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection Or install 'resize and rotate', which I think is called randr. (It could be a kde utility, though.) It allows you to choose any resolution that you are set up for, and change it at will. Anne
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