Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , March 4, O Polite did write: a. keep hitting alt + until it is no longer virtual I never got this trick to work. Is this behaviour controlled from XF86Config-4? I can't see anything in there that indicates that. I'm using KDE. Might standard KDE key settings be hiding this

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-04 Thread Harry Putnam
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 1280x1024 640x480 800x600 Virtual 1024 768 Viewport0 0 I hope that helped Peak as much as it did me. I got my

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-04 Thread Patrick Kirk
Currently in /etc/X11/XF86Config you have a series of entries along the lines of: Section Screen Driver svga Device Generic VGA Monitor 1 Subsection Display Depth 8 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 320 200 EndSubsection EndSection Note

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-04 Thread O Polite
a. keep hitting alt + until it is no longer virtual I never got this trick to work. Is this behaviour controlled from XF86Config-4? I can't see anything in there that indicates that. I'm using KDE. Might standard KDE key settings be hiding this behaviour? op

How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-03 Thread Peak Allan
I want the whole screen visible on my monitor. Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:12:18PM -0800, Peak Allan wrote: I want the whole screen visible on my monitor. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, and put the biggest resolution you want to use first in the list of resolutions under Section Screen, Subsection Display. If you switch to a lower resolution

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-03 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Peak Allan wrote: I want the whole screen visible on my monitor. Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user. You would only reduce the total area of your desktop by doing that. I'm not sure how this is desirable. -- Baloo

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-03 Thread John Foster
Peak Allan wrote: I want the whole screen visible on my monitor. Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user. --- edit your etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to something like this to control the desktop size.

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya a. keep hitting alt + until it is no longer virtual b. change /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] to the largest size it supports c ya alvin On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Peak Allan wrote: I want the whole screen visible on my monitor. Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user.

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Peak Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want the whole screen visible on my monitor. Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed to debian-user. This won't be much help to you but I want just the reverse. I'm used to having a huge virtual desktop (1600 1200) but being a newby to debian I