For those of us with laptops where you cant get to a +/- without using 
shift or functions keys we do it the hardway.

Edit your XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file and specify directly the 
resolution you need.

or on Debian w/ Gnome

apt-get install gvid (then its a snap)

or gvidm

or quickres-applet

-Derek


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Logan Kennelly wrote:

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> On Monday 22 July 2002 03:25 pm, Jeff James wrote:
> > Thanks for all your help.   I ran the Xconfigurator and all went well.  
> > I am having difficulty with changing the resolution though.  I tried the
> > example you gave me below in KDE, but to know avail.  Will this work from
> > the KDE desktop ?   I'm confused.
> 
> The functionality is independent of KDE (i.e. a part of X).  I didn't see it 
> mentioned, but the '+' and '-' keys have to (I believe) be the ones located 
> on the numeric keypad (on the far right).
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