Virtual Screen size with xqt ?

[ajnk]

Is is possible to configure the Xqt server to provide a virtual screen larger than 640x480  like you can under XFree86 ?

I am running bochs under Xqt with Dos/Win95/Office97 its slow - which I can live with, but I can't get to the windows start button because it is off screen :-( At the moment I having to tab around until I hopefully get the start button.

I thought this would also be useful for any GIMP users out there so the could scroll around larger windows.

Any help appreciated,

[lardman]

I can't remember which file it is, but follow the chain of scripts which are run when you click on the .desktop icon; in one of them the X server will be started and one (well two, width and height) of its parameters is the virtual screen size.


Si

[ajnk]

Hmm, I found the .desktop files and changed :-

Display=640x480/144dpi,480x640/144dpi

to

Display=800x600/144dpi,600x800/144dpi

didn't change anything :-(

[lardman]

That's not what I meant.

You need to look in the script which the .desktop file calls, see whether it starts the X server; if not, look in the script which it calls, etc., until you find the right one.


Simon

[ajnk]

The trails from the two .desktop files end with

a) The Xqt (X server) binary itself.
b) The startx script

neither of which seem to have any options for setting the geometry of the desktop.  I even tried using the standard X -geometry argument to Xqt, but that didn't seem to make any difference.

When run from the command line, Xqt seems to query the QT environment from the display size.  Maybe setting one of the QT environment variable would override this !?

[lardman]

Oh, I don't know then.

Are you sue that Xqt is the server, and not just the GUI? Xqt may start the server seperately (possibly), look at ps when it's running. Other than that I've no suggestions.

Sorry,


Si