Yes. The X screen will be set to the largest valid resolution you chose when
you set up X. (For example, if you chose sizes 640*480, 800*600, and
1024*768, all three resolutions will display a window that is 1024*768,
with the smaller resolutions providing kind of a viewscreen into this larger
virtual window). You can also set a virtual-screen resolution larger than
your largest resolution, but I assume you didn't do that (or you'd have
mentioned it).
BTW, by *valid* resolution, I mean one that your monitor and viedo card will
support. Many of the higher resolutions often fail because the vscan, hscan,
or video memory are wrong for them. The stderr output of startx will list
the modes that X found invalid.
The solution has two parts:
1. In xf86config, for the bit-depth your system uses, select only
the modes that you actually want to use.
2. Also in xf86config, reorder the modes to the largest one is first
on the list. That's the one your X system will start in.
When in X, you can switch among valid modes, with the keys (I think)
CRTL-ALT-+ and CTRL-ALT-- (last one is a minus).
I hope I've answered the question you were asking. There are other things
you might have meant by your question, but I thought this the most probable.
At 10:34 AM 7/28/99 -0400, Louis Dupree wrote:
>Is there a way to adjust my xwindows so that is just fills my monitor
>screen? As it is now I have to use the mouse cursor to move the part out of
>the screen on to it(hmmmm, is that clear?).
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