Brian Troutwine <goofy_headed_punk@msn.com> wrote:
>"Time to read the manual." After doing so I opened up XF86config, found

I'd say that is the right way to go. Edit XF86Config yourself.

>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

That should look like this

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0

....

>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.

Delete, above, the screen resolutions that you do not want. The
highest one *is* going to be the virtual screen size. So if you
have "1600x1200" in there and actually use "800x600", your
virtual screen will be twice as high and twice as wide as what
you can see at one time on the physical screen.

If you like 1024x768, remove all of the "1280x1024" entries. If
you like "800x600", remove the "1024x768" entries too.

Most monitors today will handle "1280x1024", and you might want
to actually use that instead of 1024x1024 or 800x600. But doing
so probably means learning more than you want to know about
configuring fonts on everything you use!

>(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.)

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