Display settings..

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 15:09, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 10:27 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > I have core6 installed and running and am trying to personalize various
> >         things and that brings me to my desktop view settings.
> >         Right now, by default - things come up at 1600x1200.  Which
> >         makes
> >         everything very tiny.  I want to change that so I can read
> >         things and so
> >         I went to the config in KDE and changed it to 1024xxxx  . And
> >         that
> >         worked fine.  Everything was the right size and I was impressed.
> >
> >         Than I rebooted the machine and when I logged in again, (to KDE)
> >         things
> >         were back at 1600x1200.
> >
> >         How can I get my 1024x... setting to stay.  Not to change when I
> >         log
> >         out?
> >
> > --
> > Ted Gervais <ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca>
>
> Open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
> Locate the "Screen" section.
> Remove the "1600x1200" part. [1]
>
> - Gilboa
> [1] The section should look something like this:
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier  "Screen0"
>     Device      "Videocard0"
>     Monitor     "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth       24
>         Modes       "1600x1200" "1600x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection

Or install 'resize and rotate', which I think is called randr.  (It could be a 
kde utility, though.)  It allows you to choose any resolution that you are 
set up for, and change it at will.

Anne
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