Re: "Screen too big" (was: No Subj)

From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 10/09/03

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    Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:20:46 -0500
To: Talbot <cwtalbot@intellex.com>

    Talbot wrote:

    >Greetings
    >I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx. The desktop environment on my screen "seems" to be at least four times as big as it should be, displaying only the top left portion of the desktop.
    >
    >The strange part of this problem is that the install program displays all of the display option screens in the correct size and font.
    >
    >Any advice to get me going will be appreciated.
    >
    >C. W. Talbot
    >cwtalbot@hotmail.com
    >

    Hi, C.W.,

       Glad to hear you got everything working! Someone
    is likely to mention to you that this forum (newbies@)
    is more of a place for people to discuss their experiences
    than to ask questions...the place for that it the questions@
    list.

       However, I'll give you a hint. This is called a
    'virtual desktop', and the size is set in your XFree86
    Config file after the keyword "Virtual." But, I'll
    also mention, it's the m/l *normal* way that XFree
    runs a desktop. It could just be that that *other*
    company made us get used to something different.

    Have a great day,

    Kevin Kinsey
    Daleco, S.P.

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