At 08:18 06/24/2002 -0700, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I don't know what the proper name for this is, but for now I'll call it a desktop raster. I'm talking about the actual content of a desktop.
I tremble at my audacity, but I think I know what you're talking about (although I don't know how to fix it...) In my case, when I installed this S-7.3, I chose to have three resolutions: 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480. YaST2, in its infinite wisdom, decided that 1027x768 should be the default resolution, so the image fits perfectly the display, but the other two do exactly what you describe: I have to use the mouse to move the image one way or the other (or both, vertically and horizonatlly) if I want to see the whole image. I'd love to have the 800x600 and 640x480 filling the display just as well as 1024x768, but I don't know how. Maybe it's not techinically possible. I don't much care for 640x480, but I like 800x600. There *is* one way to have it to behave properly: edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and in Section "Screen" *block* the 1024x768 resolution (=place a # before it **or** enter a line Virtual 800 600) which in effect eliminates the 1024x768. (This requires rebooting the X server.) I don't know what you know about the subject, so don't be offended if I say something you know well: you know you can quickly change from one resolution to another (if you have more than one listed in XF86Config), by pressing Ctrl-Alt-+ (the + is the one in tha numeric pad). Another thought: minor adjustments of width and height can be done with xvidtune. I like it a lot. Finally, no matter what you do, make sure you don't exceed the limits of your monitor. I speak from experience, as once I fried my monitor. Be cautious of SaX2 (nothing is perfect): it wanted to include a 1280x1024 resolution, which is just outside the limits for **this** model, but not for other models of this same brand. -- Regards, gr, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast.