X Resolution help

JHuizingh · 10-27-2001, 01:58 PM

I am trying to change the resolution of my X windows display, and have been looking through many how-to's but can not find what I want. I want to change what the window system reports as the resolution, that is: AxB dpi, not how many pixels are displayed on the monitor. I'm assuming that this would be something that you set in the XF86config file, but I can not find anything to help me do that. Does anybody know how to fix this?

acid_kewpie · 10-27-2001, 02:10 PM

npoe, no one nkows how....

oh ok then....

so slackware doesn't really do any of the nice GUI stuff that mandrake and redhat do i think, so run Xconfigurator to let to reconfigure X, back up the /etc/X11/xf86config-4 file first tho. then run it, and choose the different screen sizes at teh apprioriate part.

alternatively end the xf86config-4 file by hand, the screen sizes are defined at the end of the file ususally. be careful tho

oh , if you're on X 3.3.6 not version 4, then remove the -4 from the files yuore' editing.

JHuizingh · 10-27-2001, 04:24 PM

I don't think you understand exactly what I'm asking. I have the physical resolution set up in X correctly, i.e. my monitors are running at the resolutions I have them set on (1152x864 and 800x600 for the second smaller one). What I want to do is change the dpi resolution that X reports to the applications. I want to do this because when I use word processors, the documents appear square because the dpi settings of X are wrong. I want to change the dpi settings and am trying to figure out how to do that.

acid_kewpie · 10-27-2001, 04:33 PM

Bugger, sorry.

must read questions properly.