You can also define all needed resolutions in XF86Config and tell your students to use the <ctrl>-<alt>-<+> key combination to wade through the available resolutions until they have found the desired one. Cheers, Patrick On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:07, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 16/01/2003 20:40, Lucas Albers typed ... > > I am currently setting up my lab to use Redhat-8.0. > > Students like to change the resolution on the display monitor; as ever user > > prefers different resolutions. > > I would like to put a link on the desktop or on the start menu to the > > application to change resolution. > > I've wanted to do this in the past, but not enough to fully follow it > through. > > I don't think you can simplistically customise it, but my original > thought were to predefine several 'Screen' sections, each with a diff. > valid screen res., then customise the global gdm/xinit rc stuff to look > for a ~/.x-res file & issue a custom 'X -screen xxx' before running gnome. > > Even if you write a nice GUI conf. front-end, it'd never work in > 'real-tinme' though, as you'd have to log out and log in again to see > the effect. > > -- > [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
