Setting Screen Resolution in KDE 1

[coutoj]

How do i set the screen size to be greated then 640x480 in the KDE Desktop. I tried the Ctrl+Alt++ and that doesn't work. i tried to update the XF86config file and that didn't help either.

Let me know.
Jason

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Firstly, just to clarify, its a matter of configuring XFree86 rather than KDE as such.
Anyway, are you sure you edited the the correct config file ? Dependent on distro, etc., there are several places that this might be and its possible you edited the wrong one.

Do a 'find / -name XF86config*' command to find them all on your system.

Also, in the 'serverflags' section of the config make sure that 'DontZoom' is commented out otherwise the control-alt (numberpad) + or - toggle will not work.

If you have XFree86 4.0.1 onwards there is a new graphical configuration client you might want to try - 'xf86cfg'. Otherwise you can use 'Xconfigurator' in Redhat, 'XFdrake' in Mandrake, or 'sax' for Suse. Also I believe there is a utility called 'kvideogen' included in KDE itself.

Incidentally, if you are starting X from the command line with 'startx' you can readily test new configs by passing them as parms to startx - e.g. :

startx -xf86config /home/user/XF86config.new

Hope this helps, Iain