🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <38A16207.E979F966@netspace.net.au>,
Marcus Leonard  <mdl@netspace.net.au> wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>Newbie question:
>
>I've selected all the available colour and res's on RH 6.1 setup (X
>configurator). I think it's defaulting to 1280x1024.
>
>So now I can scroll through the options by doing the CTRL+ALT+NUM+ or
>NUM- thing. But, while this cranks the res up or down accordingly, the
>relative display size doesn't change; ie, the desktop size gets bigger
>than the physical screen size. So if I change to the next res down,
>things get bigger, but I have to move the mouse pointer to the edge of
>the screen and the display tracks to the edge of that desktop.
...

Quick and dirty:
Go to XF86config and comment out the lines with "virtual".

Allan Duncan  a.duncan@trl.telstra.com.au  (+613) 9253 6708, Fax 9253 6775
 Infrastructure Program - Core Network Architecture & Performance Section
 Telstra Research Labs, Box 249 Rosebank MDC
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