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On 05/20/08 20:45, Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed
> (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so
> that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was defaulting to
> 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop can handle this, but
> ... I also have older eyes and prefer a setting of 1024x768.
>
> So I went looking into the xorg.conf file, and found that ... no default
> screen res appeared to be set! In fact the file contains almost _no_
> details and consists mainly of a lot of sections that look like this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
>
> ... making it look like a lot of the X configuration is handled
> automatically.
>
> Well, great ... cough ... I would rather it _wasn't_ handled
> automatically, because I want to choose my own settings. I've handrolled
> my own .conf files for X for ages ... is there any way for me to do this
> and not have my settings overwritten by an automated thingum that has no
> idea what my specific needs are?
>
> If this is an attempt at an improvement I cannot say I care much for it.
> Certainly I can change the settings via the Gnome GUI, but this doesn't
> help me if (as often happens on my old machine) I'd rather just run
> Fluxbox.
>
> Sorry if this is an ignorant question and has been asked before. If I
> need to RTFM, just let me know where to find the relevant M and I will
> RTF thing.
So there's no /Section "Screen"/?
Mine looks like this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
# Device "nVidia Corporation Unknown"
Monitor "GatewayVX112"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
ESPN makes baseball players better.
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