F9 EeePC add/remove trouble

[Beartooth]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:45 -0400, Jim wrote:
	[...]
>> A single window is too big and everything else is OK? I can understand
>> the screen being the wrong size, which would affect everything
>> including the panel etc., but not one window. The display config
>> doesn't know anything about windows.
>>
>> If you do have the wrong screen resolution, then system-config-display
>> is where you fix it, but this affects everything.
>>
>>
>>>> This may be fixable through your desktop configuration controls, but
>>>> you don't say which dekstop you're using.
>>>>       
>>> 	I run gnome and metacity; is that what you're asking?
>>>     
>>>     
>> Gnome is a desktop environment, as is KDE. Metacity is a window manager
>> often used with Gnome (the equivalent in KDE is kwm). Since I rarely
>> use them that's as far as I can go, but if your problem is with one
>> window then the fix will be there if at all and not in the display
>> config.
>>
> No matter what you do to Display settings in Linux , it is not going
> allow a higher resolution than 800x600 on the eeePC 7" display, if you
> have a 10" display like on the eeePC 900 than you can set it to a higher
> resolution.

	My little steel tape shows a 7" diagonal on the screen. There are 
wide black bands on both sides, which I've been told are speakers.

	Fwiw, Main Menu > System > Administration > Display shows 
640x350, millions of colors, hardware autoconfigured. 

	The first tab, if you click on 640x350, also offers 640x400, 
640x480, and 720x400 -- iow,, it doesn't even get up to 800x600. 

	Would one of the other offered resolutions likely do better than 
640x350?? I've sometimes had to make large changes in what's 
autoconfigured, but I've other times gotten in over my eyeballs by 
fiddling with these settings. 

	And the same is true of /etc/X11/xorg.conf

	Now that I know the trick of dragging with the left Alt key down, 
I can usually do *something* with gpk -- but it sure would make life a 
lot easier to have the window fit the monitor.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.