On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:35:13PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > >From time to time, I use a beamer on my external VGA port of my laptop. > > My laptop TFT panel has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels but the beamer > > has a resolution of only 800x600. However, it can support 1024x768 using > > software scaling. Right now I have to edit my XF86Config-4 by hand and > > then restart my X server. The problem is that X does recognize the > > beamer on the external port and does switch back to a lower resolution, > > but the viewport stays at 1400x1050, not very handy. Does anybody know > > of an easy solution? > > > Write a separate XF86Config file for the beamer, and start the X server with > startx -- -xf86config <filename>
That's an idea. But is there no way of 'just pressing some keys and then it works?' Or: if you detect the resolution of the external monitor, please change the viewport accordingly? David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
