I realize that this question is asked quite a bit, so bear with me. How do
I turn off the virtual desktop? Since Slackware's video setup makes things
out to be less than they are I decided to run xf86config so I could watch
movies, scroll rapidily down a web page, and so on without everything
being jerky. I'd never done this before, so on the first time through I
screwed up. Then I went back though again, screwed up again. However I did
know to avoid answering yes to the bit that asks me if I wanted a virtual
desktop.
I hate virtual desktops.
Anyway, on my third time through I accidentally enabled the virtual
desktop. "Noooo!" I'd already been through the setup three times, why not
another? I fired up xf86config again and was prepared to answer that no, I
did not want a virtual desktop. It never asked. So I went through again.
Still no asking about virtual desktops.
"Time to read the manual." After doing so I opened up XF86config, found
the screen section, and was a bit dismayed to find that the line I needed
to edit was not there. (I don't remember what it is at the moment, but I'm
going to guess you guys know what I'm talking about. If not, I'll look it
up again.) Here's it is:
Code:
# ********************************************************************** #
Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes # the
configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section # may
be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen" # option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "** SiS (generic) [sis]" Monitor
"My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort
0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort
0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort
0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
I've looked at a lot of material to try and fix this myself, but most
people just suggest to run XF86config again, or use some KDE wizard. Like
I've said before XF86config doesn't give the option anymore, and I use
fluxbox. I have tried increasing the screen resolution with
crtl+alt+num+/-, and the virtual desktop disappears at the highest
resolution, which is far to tiny for me. Any help is appreciated, as my
eyesight is pretty good now and I'd like to keep it like that.
(By the way my distro is Slack 9.1, but this is a disto neutral question I
believe. If I've posted in the wrong place I would appreciate guidance to
the correct place to do so.)