Howto make resolution less?

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Sat Jun 30 19:23:41 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:24:32AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >	Guys,
> >
> >	Well, I hate to admit it, but too much "real estate" can be too
> >	much.  The default resolution has Tito be 1600x1200 where 1280x1024
> >	would work better.   I  don't find and screen size in my
> >	/etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  So where is it?  And/or which key combo
> >	do I have to hit to change thing?  ----Actually, I'd rather
> >	hardcode this data.
> 
> man xorg.conf
> 
> example:
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Card0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"

	[[ ... ]]

>                 Modes    "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> /po

	Thanks for the details; I didn't find it in the older xorg.conf man page
	nor in the 7.2 version.  Thhere were several pointers to other references;
	that may be where the "Modes" lines are.  
-- 
  Gary Kline  kline at thought.org   www.thought.org  Public Service Unix



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