-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hutchins

On Thursday 10 February 2005 12:15 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:

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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 objection is bogus,

Well, not quite what I was saying, but those modelines can get to be a pain. I was complaining about the selection of resolutions defaulting to 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. I'd like to tell the install program to drop the first two.

And stop raining on my parade by showing solutions. It's hard enough to find anything to rant about on Linux today, as it is, without educated users pointing out solutions. ;')

I'll have to look for the button you're talking about. What would be really nice to go along with the screen resize is to change the virtual desktop at the same time, so that you don't have to scroll to find menus and apps, and etc.

I'm not sure who ever thought it would be neat to have a virtual desktop that is bigger than your screen... oh ... wait ... that's what the original post was about. ;') But then, at Least with Xinerama you don't need to scroll to see the whole desktop. I find scrolling the desktop to see my apps, well, bothersome.

Brian