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Re: fvwm95 resolution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Martin)
Thu Nov 7 20:54:05 1996

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:19:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Anthony Martin <amartin@engr.csulb.edu>
To: redhat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611080141.WAA01754@doha.net>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Khalid S. Al-Khater wrote:

> I want to start my X-Windows session in a different resolution than 640X480. At the moment I use CTRL-ALT-+ to change resolution to the one I like which is 1024X768
> 
> Can anyone tell me which file has this setting. I looked in almost all the NextLevel files but could not figure it out

It's in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.  Go towards the end of the file and
find the section for your driver.  There will be a line something like:
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
Change the order of the above listed resolutions, or just remove the ones
you don't need.

Tony.



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