On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, BOHICA wrote: >Currently the resolution is set to 800x600, but the display still thinks >that it is in 640x480 mode. This causes a lot of dynamic scrolling to >get to border bars, etc. When I had (*gasp*) Windows 95/98 on the >laptop, 800x600 was small, but perfectly legible without the "virtual >desktop" effect and scrolling screens. >The question I have is: Is there a way to force the X11 or fvwm2 to >"shrink" the virtual desktop to physical screen dimensions?
Open /etc/X11/XF86Config and look in the 'Section "Screen"' section and comment out the 'Virtual' lines. This will make the display whatever you have in your 'Modes' lines.. # ********************************************************************** # Screen sections # The Colour SVGA server Section "Screen" Driver "svga" #Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device "Generic VGA" Device "Matrox Millennium" Monitor "Princeton Graphics EO90" Subsection "Display" Depth 16 # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device Modes "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "1280x1024" "640x400" ViewPort 0 0 # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA Virtual 1600 1280 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^==(Comment out this line with a #) #Options "power_saver" EndSubsection --Hope this helps ######################################################################### Robert V. MacQuarrie Web Designing For Both [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal And Small Business Solutions PGP Key Request: Reply to this email with the subject as "request pgpkey" #########################################################################