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twenty1 · 12-11-2005, 12:02 PM

How do I change the screen size to be greater then 640x480 in the KDE Desktop. I want 1280 x 780.

thanks

susanh · 12-13-2005, 05:11 PM

Hi,

It's a matter of configuring XFree86 rather than KDE.

Do a 'find / -name XF86config*' command to find them all on your system.

Also, in the 'serverflags' section of the config make sure that 'DontZoom' is commented out otherwise the control-alt (numberpad) + or - toggle will not work.

If you have XFree86 4.0.1 onwards there is a new graphical configuration client you might want to try - 'xf86cfg'. Otherwise you can use 'Xconfigurator' in Redhat, 'XFdrake' in Mandrake, or 'sax' for Suse. Also I believe there is a utility called 'kvideogen' included in KDE itself.

If you are starting X from the command line with 'startx' you can test new configs by passing them as parms to startx - e.g. :

startx -xf86config /home/user/XF86config.new

Hope this helps