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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:31:31
Message-Id: AANLkTinb=3Km71JzNhj4QfL9cu4GhX4PvUfGQAV59qcC@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal by Harry Putnam
1 On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > I'm also guessing there is some kind of replacement that I need to
3 > learn about if it effects my longtime reliance on xorg.conf to keep
4 > using my huge desktops I like to use.  For yrs I've
5 > used.
6 >
7 >    Subsection "Display"
8 >        Depth       24
9 >        Modes       "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
10 >        Virtual     2048 1536
11 >        ViewPort    0 0
12 >    EndSubsection
13 > EndSection
14 >
15 > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
16 > To get a 2048x1536 desktop to flop around on.
17 >
18 > I've never seen or heard of a way to get that without using xorg.conf.
19
20 I think you would use xrandr to set it, or your desktop environment's
21 GUI settings panel (or equivalent).

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: scrapping hal Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>