Hi Jim,
%-> I am new to X and some things are a bit strange.
X is strange by default... ;-)
%->
%-> Every windows manager (Gnome KDE XFCE) creates a screen about
%-> an inch too wide to see. Some of them will pan (not XCFE) but
%-> there must be
%-> a place I
%-> can tell the system the paint a smaller screen.
Yeah, that's one of the few easy-to-fix X things. You can either use the
text-mode xf86config utility to reconfigure your /etc/X11/XF86Config file
(the section you're looking for is towards the end, the bit where you set
the resolutions and colour depth... answer "no" to the virtual screen
question) or do it manually.
If you decide to go for the latter option, find this section in XF86Config:
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64
# I128, and S3V)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "nVidia Corporation|Riva TnT 128 [NV04]"
Monitor "Samsung SyncMaster 17GLi"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
(This is for my machine, which has XF86 4.0.1 installed -- yours will be
different.)
Change the ViewPort setting from e.g. 1280 1024 to 0 0 to disable the
seasickness-inducing panning.
HTH
-- Juha
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