On Wednesday 24 January 2001 06:52 pm, you wrote:
> The Display inside windows 98 orig. gives me problems while running
> win4lin 2. When I open windows (e.g. My Computer or Display
> Properties) some of the window appears to disappear underneath the start
> bar. I cannot get to it - this is not solved by the ALT key because that
> only moves X windows around. There should be a way of scrolling on the
> win98 desktop so that the areas of importance are uncovered. Strangely
> when I run windows stand alone this problem does not happen.


I saw the same thing happen to me under the following circumstances:

I was running KDE2
I had changed the Windows screen resolution to something higher than the 
current, say 1024x768, then went back to 640x480.  

Opening the dialog boxes for certain programs acted as though 'they' still 
thought they should size to display on a 1024x768 screen, even though windows 
was in 640x480.

My years of using keystroke shortcuts and function keys as opposed to the 
mouse to do many functions in windows paid off for me here, since I could use 
the keyboard shortcuts to activate the 'hidden' buttons and such, which 
helped a lot since there was no way possible to get to them with the mouse.

You can try this, it is a trick I used on stand alone windows after selecting 
an improper video card or upgrading to a video driver that didn't work..

Make sure Win4Lin is shut down.  Use a text editor and edit the system.ini 
file for windows.  It is located in the ~/win/windows directory.  In the 
first section [boot], there is a line that should read: *DisplayFallback=0 , 
change this to read: *DisplayFallback=1, save the file and then try starting 
win4lin.  Windows will be in a video 'safe-mode' and re-detect video 
card/drivers.

It _might_ work, I make no claims to success or guarantees.
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