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Gentleman

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Registered: 2006-05-05

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How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

I have an asus A7m laptop and everything works just fine,... The only thing that bothers me is the size of my display... I had no problems setting up xorg... I would like to reduce the height and width of my display a millimeter, how can I do this?

dienadel

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Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

In xorg.conf, section "Monitor":

DisplaySize  320   240

Edited: 320 and 240 is the size of my screen in mm

Gentleman

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Registered: 2006-05-05

Posts: 25

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

In xorg.conf, section "Monitor":

DisplaySize  320   240

Edited: 320 and 240 is the size of my screen in mm

Already tried this, no results...

Here's my Xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load           "dbe"
    Load       "dri"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "be"
    Option         "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Serial Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option         "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option         "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "USB Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option         "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    DisplaySize     350 220     
    HorizSync       28.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0

EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "All"
    BoardName      "All"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes      "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes      "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       15
        Modes      "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       32
        Modes      "1440x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option          "Composite"     "Enable"
EndSection

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

You can't do that.

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skr

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 11

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

You seem to have a fairly modern laptop, so why not let xorg detect correct settings automaticaly.

Try running xorgcfg

Gentleman

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Registered: 2006-05-05

Posts: 25

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

The auto-detection result is a little bit to big...

Acid7711

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-08-18

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Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

Are you referring to the DPI setting?

Gentleman

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Registered: 2006-05-05

Posts: 25

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

My current display is 356x230 - I would like to change it to 352x224

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

As I already said, you can't do it.

Those are physical dimensions and tft displays have a fixed amount of pixels. Try to reprogram the vga bios, the display driver, hack a new resolution into it.

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Gentleman

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Re: How do I adjust my display size? (not the resolution)

The issue is that my gnome-panels are 2 mm off screen, can't this be solved by something like a virtual desktop?