What width-height mode are you using ?

[lollipop]

I think one thing that can makes my screen
better looking is enlarge my X's width&height
now i'm running on 640x480 cos it fits on
my monitor but other modes are too big and can't be all showed by my monitor ....
I see many of your screenshots in treatment's topic look cool and i think they're running X in 1024xSomething mode
cos they look very big , is that right ?
if yes i'll ask another question ....
Is you're displaying X which larger than
your physical monitor and you have to move you mouse's cursor to access more of your screen ? I hope you all understand what i mean Please tell me Thanks in advance.

[ille_pugil42]

The images that are usually shown are large, but the resolution is also larger. That means more pixels/inch on your screen, so things will look 'tighter', or 'cripser' (or as my wife puts it - SMALLER). So yes, their backgrounds are 1024*768 (or whatever), but generally the resolution is the same so there is no scrolling involved. Make sense?

[lollipop]

Originally posted by ille_pugil42:
The images that are usually shown are large, but the resolution is also larger. That means more pixels/inch on your screen, so things will look 'tighter', or 'cripser' (or as my wife puts it - SMALLER). So yes, their backgrounds are 1024*768 (or whatever), but generally the resolution is the same so there is no scrolling involved. Make sense?
Well, what's resolution ? it means physical screen ,right ? so if i want to change my screen to as large as theirs i need to buy a more inches monitor .... is that right ?
thanks

[forrest]

err..... more or less.

[Strike]

The way I see it, resolution is the area of pixels that are available to a user on a single desktop at a given time. So, "virtual desktops" would only show part of your available resolution by my definition. For example, I run at 1280x1024, but to make things bigger, I can drop down the viewable resolution to 640x480 on a "virtual desktop".

[Unruly]

Originally posted by lollipop:
Originally posted by ille_pugil42:
The images that are usually shown are large, but the resolution is also larger. That means more pixels/inch on your screen, so things will look 'tighter', or 'cripser' (or as my wife puts it - SMALLER). So yes, their backgrounds are 1024*768 (or whatever), but generally the resolution is the same so there is no scrolling involved. Make sense?
Well, what's resolution ? it means physical screen ,right ? so if i want to change my screen to as large as theirs i need to buy a more inches monitor .... is that right ?
thanks


Nope, your monitor and video card needs to be able to higher resolutions (meaning more pixels can be packed on the screen at one time) a newer monitor (with a fairly decent video card) can do a lot of pixels on the screen at one time.

Virtual Desktops come in different flavors, one is one big virtual desktop, with a small viewing area, in which you scroll around the screen with your mouse. The other flavor is a large screen with a large viewable area, but you have other virtual desktops to switch to (sorta hard to explain)

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[lollipop]

Originally posted by Unruly:
Nope, your monitor and video card needs to be able to higher resolutions (meaning more pixels can be packed on the screen at one time) a newer monitor (with a fairly decent video card) can do a lot of pixels on the screen at one time.

Virtual Desktops come in different flavors, one is one big virtual desktop, with a small viewing area, in which you scroll around the screen with your mouse. The other flavor is a large screen with a large viewable area, but you have other virtual desktops to switch to (sorta hard to explain)


Ok thanks, then how to quickly change my resolution ? Please tell me the section in
/etc/XF86Config and give me an example.
Thanks in advance again