[ale] desktop size

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I think someone answer this question earlier.  You can lock your virtual
window size to the size of your resolution by removing the 'virtual'
entry under the Subsection Display.

I wouldn't recommend reducing the videoram setting.  I've not every
heard of this being a problem.

marnuke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I was wondering how I'd go about changing the configuration so that my
> desktop would fit in nicely on the screen.  I have a paradise pipeline pci
> video card and a compaq svga color monitor. It is hard to navigate
> specially when the window extend way beyond the  screen size.  I have come
> across linux documents addressing that problem but still it is unclear and
> new to me.  I appreciate all the help. Thank you.
> 
> Reimbert
> 
> This sounds like the funny little bug in X11.   If you say you have 8 megs
> of ram and you set your video card for 800*600, X11 will use up all the
> ram on your video card.  What you need up is a Huge desktop and a small
> viewing area.  What you do is either decreass the amount of ram you tell
> it to use or increase your screen size or both.

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