Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> A friend running Gentoo upgraded monitors from 15" to 17":
>
> Alex set up my machine in Linux and all was fine until [someone else]
> tried to make my life better by replacing my perfectly good 15 inch
> monitor with a 17 inch one. Now everything is so tiny I can't read
> it and most of the screen is blank. No one seems to know how to
> fix this. Is there an easy way to make things bigger?
>
> This is Gentoo. Any help would be appreciated. Strangely enough,
> when the computer boots up the print is fine but once you go into
> e-mail (thunderbird) or internet (firefox) everything gets small.
>
> I've never used Gentoo (and I don't use Gnome or KDE). What can I tell her?
>
Some of the digital monitors rember different settings for each
configuation. Perhaps if she just uses the monitor menu she can get it
to fill the screen. If not, the X server config will have to be
tweeked, and I don't know if their is a utility in gentu to do that.
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