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On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I |
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> missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using |
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> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now. |
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> So my first question is what does do it?.. I have a nice desktop but |
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> no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. |
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> However under the new setup, I'm missing one major thing. It has to |
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> do with resolution of the desktop. Using Xfce4, I see no way to |
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> adjust the res above 1024x798 using the applet provided for that |
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> purpuse, when I'm used to a much more massive size. 2048x1536 that I |
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> used to get by puting this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf |
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> Subsection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> Modes "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" |
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> Virtual 2048 1536 |
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> ViewPort 0 0 |
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> I used something this size for years and really do miss it. I like to |
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> be able to flop around on the massive deskop. |
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> It has a second unintended benefit too... it keeps most people off my |
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> computer since slithering around on something that size can be very |
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> disconcerting to the uninitiated. I've learned that grand kids really |
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> don't like it... hehe. |
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When they hit their teens they will make sure you don't understand their |
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gadgets either. |
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> So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I |
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> suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner |
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> understand how to utilize the new proceedure. |
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Well, xrandr can set the screensize, but I don't know how to make it |
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happen automatically. A shellscript, perhaps. |
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