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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes: |
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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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>> |
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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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>> EndSubsection |
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>> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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The ones I need to foil are well past there teens... hehe. |
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