Hi,

The madbomber game frequently freezes and am forced to go to the black screen and KILL it. When back in X there is a perfect 'virtual desktop'. When the mouse is at the edge of the screen the desktop moves as does the mouse - with no jumps. Everything has been scaled up in size, everything - including the mouse pointer, by about 20%. I like it and would like to have it all the time. Is there a way to configure it in?

Thanks for any help.

I think you need to configure this in X. Firstly, backup your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Then run xf86config. Answer all of the questions, and then when setting the modes, choose the one for the colour depth that you use and set the default resolution to say 800x600 or maybe 640x480 (assuming you normally use 1024x768). I think you do this by listing it first. Then when it asks "do you want a virtual desktop bigger than the physical screen?" or something similar, say yes. I'm pretty sure that this is what this option is for, but I've never picked it myself. It might then ask you how big you want the virtual desktop, or it might not.
It'll probably ask you to save the config file as /etc/X11/XF86Config. Answer no to all of it's suggestions, and tell it to save it as /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
Then restart X and it should work.

To be honest, I'm only guessing this will work. That's why you should back up your original X configuration file.
Let me know if it does work,
Guy

Control, Alt and keypad + should toggle this option. Give it a go.

It may be control alone, I forget.

Hehe, I never knew about that. Ctrl+Alt+keypad + is cool.

Thanks enormous.

guygriffiths-

Will try ctrl-alt-keypad+ if it works on my thing will not bother reconfiguring X. Sorry so idle. Thanks anyway, interesting stuff.