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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:48:36 -0800 (PST)
You can't change the resolution or the bit depth while X is running. Call
it a limitation.
All you can do is "zoom" in and have a virtual desktop.
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On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 chef@mindlink.net wrote:
>
> >
> > # startx -- -bpp 32
>
> Okay, so that worked. Thanx
>
> > www.xfree86.org
>
> That's a good source. I can use it to tweak my resolution, but I pretty much
> got that running at its limit now.
>
> I've still got the problem of not being able to change resolutions while X
> is
> running.
> Before posting to the list the first time I tried using
>
> <ctrl>+<alt>+?
> (must of tried over 30 different key combinations.)
> Some surprising results but not the desired results.
>
> Could this be a keymapping issue?
> I haven't made any changes to the default keyboard settings in the
> XF86Config.
>
> This puzzles me because I know that it should be working
>
> Shawn R. Anderson
>
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