On 16 Aug, James Schofield wrote:
> Ok, installed Mandrake 6.0
>
> I would like to have several resolutions available to me in X. So when I do
> my video and Monitor setup I decide not to accept the default resolution
> found and I pick three from the 24bit list. 800 x 600 1024 x 768 and 1248 x
> 1024 (is that last one right?) anyway...
You probably mean 1280x1024.
> When I get into X.. no difference what windows manager I use.. KDE or Gnome
> etc... It fits the largest resolution to my monitor and the others it makes
> them Larger icons etc.. in a vitural screen which extends past the edge of
> the real screen.. I HATE THAT..
>
> I have looked and looked but so far I have not found a way to turn this
> virtural screen off.. I dont want to pan off the edge of my screen how do I
> stop it??
This effect has nothing to do with the window manager you're using.
This is a feature of the X server. X doesn't want to recalculate the
desktop every time you change screen resolution, so it picks the
largest size for that color depth, and uses it all the time. I think
this is beacuse there's no standard way to inform all the X
applications that the desktop size is changing- thus, every application
that thinks the desktop is a certain size would be broken by a change
in resolution. As long as the desktop stays the same, no other program
besides the X server has to know that the screen resolution has changed.
As far as I know, there is no way around this.
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-Matt Stegman
