But wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell the installation program to remove those offending lines, or replace them with lines of resolution you want? I know how to do it by editing the X files, and my system already boots that way. However my semi-literate wife would totally lose it if she were to accidentally hit <ctrl><alt><+> and all of a sudden her entire desktop vanishes and is replaced with this new jigsaw puzzle piece of her old screen. This is the way she would see it. She wouldn't recognize the her screen resolution just changed. She would simply reply that that was a stupid thing to do and it just confuses her, couldn't I just get rid of that? As it is she gets frustrated enough, because I have been a lousy system administrator and haven't set up her account by activating all those things she might someday want to use. I love Linux, but there are still a lot of little things that need tweaking to make it easier to maintain.
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Brian Densmore wrote: |>-----Original Message----- |>From: Leo Mauler |> | ... The issue I have is that be default it will create a 640x480 | screen, then 800x600, then 1024x768. | ... | but I'd like to be able to install X and get it | running at the resolution I choose or higher, not lower. | ... | I know my current desktop has the 640 and 800 options in the X files. | I've been to lazy to go and edit them out.
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All you have to do is change the order of the modes in the screen subsection. ~ This is what the section from my home desktop looks like.
Section "Screen" ... SubSection "Display" ~ Depth 32 ~ Modes "1600x1200" "1200x1024" "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600" ~ EndSubSection
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Brian Densmore wrote: | But wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell the installation program | to remove those offending lines, or replace them | with lines of resolution you want? I know how to do it by editing | the X files, and my system already boots that way. However my semi-literate | wife would totally lose it if she were to accidentally hit <ctrl><alt><+> | and all of a sudden her entire desktop vanishes and is replaced with | this new jigsaw puzzle piece of her old screen. This is the way she would | see it. She wouldn't recognize the her screen resolution just changed. | She would simply reply that that was a stupid thing to do and it just | confuses her, couldn't I just get rid of that? As it is she gets | frustrated enough, because I have been a lousy system administrator | and haven't set up her account by activating all those things she | might someday want to use. I love Linux, but there are still a lot | of little things that need tweaking to make it easier to maintain. <snip /> You can change the order with the xf86config or X -configure. There should be a nice control panel that allows you to change it without having to edit the config or use one of the config programs.
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 12:15 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
But wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell the installation program to remove those offending lines, or replace them with lines of resolution you want?
It looks like the Mandrake 10.1 version of xorg is set up that way - I no longer have page after page of modelines, although I do have several that don't work.
You also seem to be saying that you want an easy way to change screen resolution that's not Ctrl-Alt-[+|-]. First, I think your objetion is bogus, the only reason most people press that combination in the first place is because they know what it does, that's why it's a three-key combination. If you're holding Ctrl and Alt, you've got to expect something systemic to happen.
Second, most of the KDE desktops I've seen lately have a screen resolution icon in the system tray, so somebody else must have a similar complaint. Click on icon, click on resolution, done.
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