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From: pmh@ardbeg.komma.de (Patrick M. Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Screen larger than monitor size ... Why ?
Date: 24 Sep 1996 07:20:55 GMT
Organization: Patrick M. Hausen - private site
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Vineet Pancholi (pancholi@theta.Microchip.COM) 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.
Easy - somewhere in your /etc/XF86Config is a line reading
virtual 1152 900
or something similar - I use Accelerated X instead of XFree86.
Change that to your actual resolution and there you go.
If I remember correctly, there's even a comment somewhere in the file
stating, that virtual resolution higher than your screen size could be
especially confusing for users of window managers with virtual screens,
and recommending to turn it off.
Cheers, Paddy
--
Patrick M. Hausen Gerwigstr. 11 76131 Karlsruhe pmh@islay.sub.org
"Oh, was wuerde ich jetzt nicht fuer eine gute altmodische
britische Langeweile geben ..." -- David Brin in "Erde"