On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:39, Richard Urwin wrote:
> On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 4:39 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:21, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Are you thinking of Ctrl-Alt-+ and Ctrl-Alt-'-' ?
> >
> > I thought I was wrong with those key combinations but for some reason
> > they didn't work either.
>
> That's + and - on the keypad, not the main keyboard.
>
> > Ctrl-Alt-'-' and restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace). Is this what I have to
> > do?
>
> No. It doesn't save the resolution between restarts.
> I would edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and remove 1024x768., and make sure 800x600
> is the first in the list. But there might be a GUI method somewhere.
>
> If you move 1024x768 to the end of the list of resolutions it will start in
> the first given resolution, but the desktop will still be 1024x768, (ie the
> largest given resolution,) and you will need to scroll to see it all.
Out of luck :-(
I have a laptop and the function keys doesn't work the way they are
supposed to. I need to install toshutils, but I can't for some ACPI
reason.
So I can get to the keypad.
I will try now the /etc/X11.... method.
Thanks to all.
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