For those of us with laptops where you cant get to a +/- without using
shift or functions keys we do it the hardway.
Edit your XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file and specify directly the
resolution you need.
or on Debian w/ Gnome
apt-get install gvid (then its a snap)
or gvidm
or quickres-applet
-Derek
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Logan Kennelly wrote:
> > On Monday 22 July 2002 03:25 pm, Jeff James wrote:
> > Thanks for all your help. I ran the Xconfigurator and all went well.
> > I am having difficulty with changing the resolution though. I tried the
> > example you gave me below in KDE, but to know avail. Will this work from
> > the KDE desktop ? I'm confused.
>
> The functionality is independent of KDE (i.e. a part of X). I didn't see it
> mentioned, but the '+' and '-' keys have to (I believe) be the ones located
> on the numeric keypad (on the far right).
>
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