On 8 Sep, I wrote: > Despite comments that in 4.x, the virtual desktop is exactly as big as > the maximum resolution specified in the modes for the given screen > colour depth, that didn't appear to be the case. I had a 1600x1200 > mode at a colour depth of 24, and none at 16, yet my desktop was always > 1600x1200. > > Reading up the doco lead me to add a: > > Virtual 1280 1024 > > into the appropriate Display subsection. Unfortunately, the machine > crashed at that point. However, upon restart, the desktop was > (finally!) restricted to 1280x1024 size. But on checking the > XF86Config-4 file, I saw that my changes had not survived the crash.
Yes, I've had sufficient crashes in the last hour to confirm that. The manual is correct - the virtual desktop depends on the maximum resolution specified in the Modes line. BUT, shutting down the X server is not enough - you have to reboot for the change to take effect. (!) Incidentally, I'll be surprised if I get to finish this email. The machine has been crashing within seconds of starting X. I've had about 8 crashes in the last hour - again, one so bad I had to pull the power cord to power off the machine. And it looks like restricting the desktop area to 1280x1024 made the crashes far more frequent. Until I reset it to 1600x1200, the longest it stayed up after starting X was about 10 seconds. All very weird. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
