Thanks Neil. I'll give it a try. Cheers, Patrick On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:02, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 16/01/2003 20:54, Patrick typed ... > > I normally drive my monitor on 1280x1024 but when I want to watch a > > movie I tune it down to 800x600 or 640x480. Now I have not figured out > > how to make the virtual screen the exact same size as the resolution > > defined in Modes in XF86Config. Anyone have a clue? Configs like the > > example below don't work. There still is a virtual screen around my > > monitor. How do I get rid of that virtual screen? > > Not quite certain what you're after, but I *think* what you want > isn't directly possible. > > If it helps, and I've understood you correctly, I have a somewhat > similar situation where I have a PC game for my son which I run under > wine*; it wants an 800x600 display. > > I have set up a second "Screen" section in XF86Config with 800x600 > res. Call it "small" or something. I then have a script which does > something like: > > export DISPLAY=:1.0 > X -screen small :1 & > xpid=$! > wine game > kill -INT $xpid > > [That's OTTOMH, may not be quite right] > > I've linked that onto my desktop and run *it* to start the game. > Guess you could do a similar thing with xine/ogle in there instead of wine. > > > * - get this: it runs fine on Linux under wine, but I can't make it work > when I'm natively booted into XP! > > -- > [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature > [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature > ls: .signature: No such file or directory > [neil@fnx ~]# exit > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
