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Soldat

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,02:51

All of the program windows always pop-up larger than the size of my monitor. Is there a way to fix this? All of the shortcuts show up on the desktop as they should. Also, I doubt this should go here but no reason to make a new topic so I thought I would ask here. After I install a theme how do you use it?

Thanks alot,
Soldat

Juanito

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:25

Quote (Soldat @ Feb. 26 2007,01:51)

All of the program windows always pop-up larger than the size of my monitor.

I think this happens when the screen size is set to a resolution larger than that your machine can physically manage - i.e. xsetup is set to 1024x768 but your machine can only manage 800x600.

Maybe you could try changing xsetup to see what happens?

Soldat

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:37

Well it's already set to the smallest setting (800x600 or something like that). I suppose something else to add to this. I changed the desktop then i rebooted and the desktop has changed back. Why wont that stay the same?

Juanito

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,03:46

Maybe it is a combination of the resolution and the colour depth - i.e. maybe your machine can support 800x600x8 but not 800x600x24 and so it drops to 640x480x24?

Soldat

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Posted: Feb. 26 2007,04:03

I am unsure as of that. But I am pretty sure that it would be fine, providing the fact that has anything to do with how old the computer is there shouldn't be toooo much of a problem, heh.

Also, if anyone can anwser any of my other misc. questions while they are glancing through this thread it would be appreciated.

EDIT: Solved the problem, it was the screen resolution, i just used the DSL Panel and chose the last option under Xvesa set up or something like that. Now how do I save my settings like this because I know they wont save..

Questions still:
How do I save my desktop etc. and now my settings?
And how do I save my desktop aswell as use themes?

EDIT AGAIN: I know I am horrible. Is there a screen saver even available?

EDIT ONCE AGAIN: Don't shoot me please I am still new to all this and I don't want to make 10000 posts when it really isn't nessasary. I have installed DSL to my hard drive if it makes any difference in how I save things.

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