Re: fixing virtual resolution only for external vga?

Martin Hofius <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:58:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.laptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Sebastian,
of course no solution, but a workaround (see below):

Am Montag, 12. Februar 2007 15:31 schrieb Sebastian Reitenbach:
> Hi list,
>
> I am trying to get a projector working on a dell D 820. This machine has a
> 1680x1050 resolution on its display. When I configure it with SaX2, to show
> a 1024x768 or 1280x1024 resolution on the external port, I get a 1024x1024
> resolution out of it.
> Then I tried to switch through the resolutions via Ctrl+Alt+Plus. When I am
> at 1024x768, then the external VGA resolution switchted to that resolution
> too, but the virtual resolution was still larger.

If you use the resolution desktop applet of kde or the kde control center to 
switch to a lower (predefined) resolution, the virtual desktop is resized to 
the new physical resolution...

Greetings
Martin