[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I
> missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now.
>
> So my first question is what does do it?.. I have a nice desktop but
> no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>
> However under the new setup, I'm missing one major thing.  It has to
> do with resolution of the desktop.  Using Xfce4, I see no way to
> adjust the res above 1024x798 using the applet provided for that
> purpuse, when I'm used to a much more massive size. 2048x1536 that I
> used to get by puting this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
>      Subsection "Display"
>          Depth       24
>          Modes       "1280x1024" #"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>          Virtual     2048 1536
>          ViewPort    0 0
>      EndSubsection
>
> I used something this size for years and really do miss it.  I like to
> be able to flop around on the massive deskop.
>
> It has a second unintended benefit too... it keeps most people off my
> computer since slithering around on something that size can be very
> disconcerting to the uninitiated.  I've learned that grand kids really
> don't like it... hehe.

When they hit their teens they will make sure you don't understand their
gadgets either.

> So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I
> suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner
> understand how to utilize the new proceedure.

Well, xrandr can set the screensize, but I don't know how to make it
happen automatically.  A shellscript, perhaps.