On Monday 30 June 2003 09:26 am, Alberto Bert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 1600x1200 monitor and icons are sooo small...
>
> Does someone know how can I change monitor resolution?
>
> Thanks
> Alb
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You have the choice of 2 ways. As I remember from seeing your
XF86Config, you have several resolutions contained in the config. To
simply switch among them, you can press the key combination control alt
and the + or _ keys on the number pad.(note that the plus and minus
keys on the main keyboard will not work.
This will give you the next resolution in your list from XF86Config.
You will see that you get a virtual desktop showing only the section of
your default desktop that can be painted at the new resolution. Moving
your mouse to the edges of the screen will move about the rest of the
desktop.
The above solution is a bit awkward in my opinion. a better way would
be to edit your XF86Config and remove the 1600x1200 from the list. Be
very careful to not change the format. Mind that you have quotes and
spaces in the right places and you should be good to go.
There is another solution I would play with if I were you. Assuming
you're using KDE as your desktop/window manager, you can alter the size
of fonts and icons so that you can read them without sacrificing your
high resolution. I'm running a resolution of 1920x1440 and my icons and
fonts are perfectly readable to my 54 year old eyes. For your icons, go
to the start applications> settings> controlcenter. on the "index" tab,
open the appearance and themes list and select "Icons". You can change
icon size under the "advanced tab. Right above "Icons" in the "index"
list is "fonts" Play around there to set fonts to a useable size.
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