I've got one laptop and one desktop machine connected to a network so that my home directory and user account is the same regardless of which machine I log into.

When logging into the desktop with a 1280x1024 resolution screen, I get an eye-pleasing resolution with not-too-large and not-too-small icons.

However, when logging into my laptop which only is 1024x768 on the same account (shared w/NFS) the icons, fonts, menus etc are all a tad too large.

I don't want to set the size smaller in KDE, as that will make it WAY too small on the desktop machine.

Thus my question is: Is there anywhere in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or similar I can specify that I want "everything" a bit smaller?

PS. I know it's the nature of things that it'll be different on a 1024x768 compared to 1280x1024 - my question is how to "compensate" without making account settings in KDE as it'll impact my use on the desktop as well.DS

-Y1

You could try setting (and altering) the 'DisplaySize' parameter within the Monitor section of your xorg.conf.

DisplaySize width height
This optional entry gives the width and height, in millimetres, of the picture area of the monitor.
If given this is used to calculate the horizontal and vertical pitch (DPI) of the screen.

You might need to disable the use of DDC from your video card though - or maybe your defined values will override the DDC value.

I'm not very confident though ...

Iain.