On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> I have a new Toshiba laptop with an NVidia-based card. The screen can do
> a resolution of 1600x1200.
>
> However, when I run X, and I choose a resolution of anything smaller
> than 1600x1200, the display is centred in the screen, with a black
> border around it. The reason I don't want to run at 1600x1200 is that
> the fonts are too small to read. I tried to use my Gnome control panel
> to increase the font size, and that works for many applications, but a
> number of applications, notably mozilla, and xmms, still use painfully
> tiny fonts. I'd rather go back to using a resolution of 1024x768, which
> is comfortable for me.
>
> Any idea how to "stretch" the display to fill the screen in a smaller
> mode?
The "nv" driver does not support scaling the display. You can
do that if you are using NVIDIA's binary drivers, but I'm not sure
you'd like the result. Flat panels are not analog devices so scaling
doesn't always look so good on them. You can change Mozilla's
fonts from Mozilla's menu at: Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts
Also, changing the dpi setting (startx -- -dpi 200) may help things.
Mark.
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