jps8008 wrote:
> Chad, Yes I have all those keys, but pressing them all at once does
> nothing on my system. What do mean by 'while in X'? Thanks, -Jay.
>
>>Huh? There's a Ctrl, an Alt, and a number pad on your keyboard, right?
>> While in X, press the Ctrl, the Alt, and the - key on the number pad
>>all at once. It is infinitely simpler than reconfiguring X. It will
>>decrease the resolution.
Ah, that's different than not understanding what pressing Ctrl+Alt+-
meant, hence my confusion. X is what the graphical interface to Linux
is called, in the general case. XFree86 and X.org are common versions
of X. GNOME, KDE, and others build on top of X to create full graphical
user interfaces.
Well, you may have only one resolution configured, then. Instead of
running Xconfigurator, it may be easiest to just change the
configuration file directly. It's not hard, and you won't risk losing
the rest of your configuration. The hardest part, actually, will be
finding the file to configure. Since you're running RH 7.3, you're
using XFree86. Take a look in your X logs to figure out where your
configuration file is. It'll be in /var/log, and it should match
XFree*.log. Open it up (you may need to be root), and take a look in
the first 20 lines or so for something like:
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Now open that file mentioned (you'll definitely have to be root for
this) and scroll down until you find the following:
Section "Screen"
In this section (there may be more than one of them) there will likely
be many lines that begin with the word "Modes". At the end of all of
these lines, add "800x600" with the quotes, putting some amount of white
space between the last mode and this one.
Once you've added your 800x600 resolution to all of your Modes, you can
either reboot, or just restart X by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Once
you're back in X, try Ctrl+Alt+- again. It should cycle you through all
of your configured resolutions.
Let us know if you have any problems with this.
Chad Martin
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