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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Subject: Re: Screen larger than monitor size ... Why ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3248069B.167EB0E7@jnet.vi> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: University of the Virgin Islands References: <pgn2yi9d50.fsf@theta.Microchip.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:04:43 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Lines: 28 Vineet Pancholi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been enjoying my FreeBSD rev 2.1.0. with Xfree86. Everything is > good, but for the screen. > > I have a 17 inch monitor. But the mouse can be moved beyond the bottom > right corner, and it appears as if the screen is actually larger than > the size of the monitor. > > No. I am not talking about virtual screens of my FVWM2. > > Please ask me another question, if this makes little sense. ( ie. if I > am not describing my problem well enough ...) > > Please suggest what do I need to go fix. > In your /etc/XF86Config file, look in the "Display" section and check out your "Virtual" screen size. If this is larger than your physical screen, change it (assuming you don't need/want a larger virtual screen). -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |