andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net wrote:
On Sunday 24 March 2002 22.02, John Scott wrote:
There used to be a desktop size option waaay back when I used Caldera 1.3 which was about 3 years ago. mething similar.
That's still there. It's "Virtual x y", but since it's static I didn't think that was what you wanted. The virtual desktop isn't changed when you resize with ctrl-alt-+. I read somewhere that this functionality is being worked on.
ah. Don't quote me as it was a long time ago but I believe the option was Virtual = none or something to that effect. I noticed I didn't need the option after my next upgrade so it's been long forgotten until now.
sax keeps a copy in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/sax/files/XF86Config. If I changed both files then my changes took efffect. I never had to do that before now so I don't know what strangeness is happening with this config. I
No such file here (SuSE 7.3) Changes I make in /etc/X11/XF86Config take effect.
//Anders
That's wierd. I did a fresh install of 7.3 a couple months ago. This is the first instance where I needed be concerned about X. I upgraded my nVidia drivers and ran sax2 to turn on 3d accel. My 1280x1024 desktop was gone and replaced with 1024x768. ctl-alt-(+/-) had no effect. A look inside /etc/X11/XF86Config revealed that sax only put 1 res on the mode line (despite my having put 5during setup). I simply changed the file back with the resolutions I needed but nothing happened. I got extremely frustrated that my /etc/X11/XF86Config changes were not having effect so I did "locate XF86Config". It revealed the other copy. I re-edited /etc/X11/XF86Config (it had reverted after suseconfig was run again) then copied it over the sax copy and that worked.