> > Von: Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This is called a virtual desktop. When you are configuring the order of > >modes, it asks you whether you want virtual desktop or not. Since you > >don't want it, say No. I can't stand it either...but I use 3 out of 4 > >desktop screens. > > I've run XF86Setup a dozen times in the last day or two, but I wasn't aware > of being invited to do anything I would call 'configuring the order of > modes'. Certainly, nobody asked me if if I wanted virtual desktop. But > you've got three desktop screens running, which gives me hope. >
try xf86config instead. Even though it's a text version of XF86Setup, it might give you better functionality. (This is where the order of modes and turning virtual desktop on/off comes from). By default you can have 4 desktop screens. You switch between them with Ctrl+arrow keys (You start at top left, if you Ctrl+left, you will go to next one. Not sure if twm (I assume you are starting with the default twm) even supports it, but my AfterStep does. A fundamental problem I seem to have is that when I run startx it only looks > at the VGA16 section and only at the 'depth 4' subsection. (That's the only > subsection XF86Setup writes in XF86Config, and when I added an 8-bit > subsection with a different screen size it was ignored.) If I comment it > out, it returns an error and refuses to start. I have an API Mach64 card > which is detected together with chip, ramdac etc with no complaint, and > XF86Setup writes all the details in XF86Config. So does anyone know why I'm > stuck with a 16-colour one-size display? You've all been very patient up to > now. Please don't give up on me. Try to get it to work with SVGA server, instead of using the Mach64 accelerated server. I tried using S3 accel. server, but never got anything better than 320x200 8bit screen out of it. Andrei --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. http://www.missouri.edu/~c680789 <--"Computer languages of the world" My work in progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
