[wellylug] Screen Alignment with Xorg

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jedolinux.com
Sun Dec 11 11:47:08 NZDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 11:35 +1300, David Murray wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 
> > So I can have the screen aligned for one machine, but not the other. Can
> > I give Xorg any settings to move the screen left or right on one of the
> > computers?
> 
> There is an adjustment wizard in KDE for doing this.

I use GNOME (please don't flame me).  ;-)


> Also, when installing SuSE and Mandrake (dunno about other distros) you 
> can set that sort of stuff at the same stage as when choosing monitor, 
> video card, colour depth, refresh rate, and screen resolution.
> 
> In YaST select the hardware module, and then select "Graphics card and 
> monitor". Then click "change".
> 
> Now you should have the "SaX2: Extended X11 Configuration" module running.
> 
> Select "Desktop" and "Geometry".
> 
> Make your changes there and click "save". The rest of the process should 
> be straight forward.
> 
> I dunno about other distros.

Custom distro (Jedo Linux). I need to know the setting for the Xorg
config file.


thanks anyway,

-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php

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