topic Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size in Operating System - Linux

SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Vernon Brown_1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:08:43 GMT

I just installed SUSE 9.0 Professional distribution of Linux accepting the defaults and I find that the screen size is so large that the text on many web sites is too small to read.

Is there a way to resize the screen without re-installing ?

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Stuart Browne — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:49:28 GMT

I take it you mean in X-Windows.

There should be a tool in SuSE (I don't use it, so I'm unsure what it's called) to change the resolution of the display adapter.

Failing that, you can tweak the X configuration manually (/etc/X11/XF86Config), under the "Screen" section.

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Vernon Brown_1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:28:45 GMT

I found XF86Config in the X11 directory but they were not execuitable files. They look like program generated config files.

I've been running a RedHat Linux 7.2 server for a couple of years and am familiar with the RedHat XConfigurator (spell ?) resize tool but so far haven't found one in this SuSE distro.

I'll keep looking; Thanks for your response.

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Vernon Brown_1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:08:53 GMT

Ok I found the answer by the old RTFD method :o)

While XWindows is running press Ctrl + Alt and + or - on the numeric keypad. This resizes the screen immediately. Resizing uses the XF86Config-(Computer Name) file in /etc/X11.

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Martin P.J. Zinser — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:33:46 GMT

Hello Vernon,

for future reference, pretty much all of the system configuration tasks can be performed using yast2 (yet another setup tool). You can find it in the startmenu (SuSE --> System) or
invoke it as root directly from a terminal as /sbin/yast2.

All the best,

Martin

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Vernon Brown_1 — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:52:12 GMT

Thanks for your help.

I'll try Yast to get to know it better.

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Hoefnix — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:08:21 GMT

In SuSE the default tool to configure your X was SAX2.
To resize your X while you are using it can something like:
CTRL-ALT-<+key>
or
CTRL-ALT-<-key>

+ and - key from the numiric-keyboard.

Regards,

Peter

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Hoefnix — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:11:07 GMT

One other remark.
When installing SuSE, in the first splash screen you get, you can select the default resolution of the screen by using the Function key's. If nothing is selected within +/- 10 seconds it uses a default.

Regards,

Peter

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Pavel Bauer — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:17:44 GMT

Hello,
if you can change screen resolution by 'like windoze', you can use "krandrtray" app.
Use Menu -> Utilities -> Desktop -> Screen Resize & Rotate.
Will run on background in "system tray"

pa.

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

Vernon Brown_4 — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:52:39 GMT

Thanks guys; I came to assign points but the system doesn't recognize me as the author. Guess I was using Windows when I posted. I'll try again.

Re: SUSE 9.0 Screen size

I.Delic — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:54:07 GMT

Hi,

With the sax or sax2 tool you can configur your screen settings.It is very easy

Succes

Idriz