Resolution of KDE, NOT X

static · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 4:38 am Post subject: Resolution of KDE, NOT X

How do I get KDE to be 1024x768 by default? Right now X will load the first resolution I have in XF86Config-4 (Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" ...) However KDE is 1280x1024 no matter what. I'd like 1024x768 but right now the whole desktop is too big and rolls around if I load X as 1024x768, as in scrolls when the mouse gets near the edge.
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Eugenia · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 4:55 am Post subject:

Login as root.
Type on a terminal:
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config-OLD
nano -w /etc/X11/XF86Config

Scroll down where it says 'Section "screen" '
Put the DefaultColorDepth to 8,16,24 or 32, depends how you like it, for example, like this:

DefaultColorDepth 16

Now, depending what you picked (8,16,24 or 32) go the Subsection "Display" that it has its depth set to the number you picked for the DefaultColorDepth.
Change the Modes of this subsection to this:

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

Here is an example of the whole subsection inside the Section "Screen":

dice · Guru Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 577

I think what he's talking about is that X actualy has a virtual resolution of 1280x1024 and a real resolution of 1024x768, so it's necessary to scroll around the desktop by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen and such. Open up your XF86Config file and comment out lines that look like:

static · Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 4:11 am Post subject:

I don't have any of those

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Malakin · Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 5:18 am Post subject:

Eugenia's suggestion should work, the main point here is remove any modes that are a higher resolution then 1024x768. After running X you can "type xdpyinfo | grep dimensions" or look at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log and make _sure_ it's actually using 1024x768.

If you're really running at 1024x768 and this is the highest resolution you have listed and there's no virtuall entry in XF86Config then there's no way for it to give you a virtual resolution that I'm aware of.

I had some similar problems, I set X to use 1152x864@85hz and didn't realize right away that it was actually running at 1024x768 since for some reason XFree86 4.2 will not run at 1152x864@85hz without a modeline entry for it, 75hz was no problem, only when I forced it to run at 85hz it instead jumped down to the next highest resolution and gave me a virtual resolution of 1152x864, was annoying until I figured out what was going on.