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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> > Yes, simply remove the Virtual line in /etc/XF86Config
> > (or put a # at the beginning of the Virtual line).  Then
> > the screen size will be set to match the largest resolution
> > you specify in /etc/XF86Config.

My XF86Config doesn't have a Virtual line, but it doesn have 640x480 as
the default screen size. Since I have 1280x1024 as the highest possible
resolution though, my desktop is 1280x1024 with only 640x480 displayed at
any one time. More below Sindi's response:

> changed at least the line for 8-bit (1) to 432 - this gave me a 1024
> screen and I could hit Ctl-Alt-+ to get back to the situation that Mole
> describes.

This is what I wanted to get by without. If you hit CtrlAlt+ to change
resolution, have it not give you the virtual setting at all. If I'm in for
example 1280x1024 and that is the first resolution Mode available and hit
CtrlAlt+ then I would get 640x480 with the virtual desktop of 1280x1024. I
want to make it so that if I switch to 640x480 I have total desktop space
at 640x480 (no virtual desktop area at all). This is what I referred to
by turning off virtual desktop. I will be digging through some stuff over
the holiday weekend (4 day weekend, woohoo) so I'll be able to get some
answers from my experiments to bring to the list.

Matrix Mole
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