On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Red Alert wrote:
> Thanks Iain for your thread. I have it working properly now. But I hate that
> scrolling desktop. Is there any way of changing the resolution in KDE? It's
> currently running 800x600x16 and by running the desktop by 1024x768x16, I
> won't have to scroll around the screen just to find the taskbar.
KDE just uses the root window size. If you have defined multiple
resolutions, the root window is created at the highest resolution, and X
initially uses the first resolution.
eg: From my XF86Config (or XF86Config-4, if you have both) file:
Section "Screen"
...
Subsection "Display"
...
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
In my case: I have a 1600 by 1200 root window, and XFree86 starts using
this resolution. I can cycle through them using Ctrl+Alt+[KP -], and
Ctrl+Alt+[KP +].
If I listed them backwards, XFree86 would start at 640x480, but I'd still
have the 1600x1200 root window size. (there is work on a changable root
window size, but AFAIK, it's not in general use just yet).
The defaults, I think, are for 3 resolutions; 640x480, 800x600, and
1024x768; in that order.
Quick fix (and check to see if it'll work atall... the 1024x768 mode could
break things- check it first), is to use Ctrl+Alt+KeyPad + to cycle
through the resolutions to check you can find the one that doesn't scroll.
Once you've checked that, go edit the config file, and put your prefered
resolution at the start of the list, and make sure you don't have any
larger resolutions following it. If you don't see the need for multiple
resolutions, just list the one.
Note that you may have multiple Subsection "Display" entries, for
different depths; I'd suggest you change all of them. If you change one
for a depth other than whatever DefaultDepth (or a command-line switch)
says, it'll have no effect atall.
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