Higher-res external monitors under X

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Mon Feb 16 10:51:30 PST 2004


Jamie Bowden <ragnar at sysabend.org> writes:
> Unless something has changed, as long as you have valid modelines for all
> display devices and resolutions you plan on having X output to, ctrl-alt-+
> and ctrl-alt-- are your friends.

That only works if the virtual desktop size is at least as large as
the highest physical resolution you want to support.  At all other
resolutions you will have to swim around with the mouse, which to put
it plainly sucks.

Of course my Latitude D600 has a 1600x1200 panel, so I don't have this
problem :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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