From: Jeff Shultz 

Matt.Gilbert{at}harborwebs.com wrote:

> but sometimes a weak 9 volt battery drastically affects my guitar
> effects, which affects my playing to where it's not nearly as effective
> as it should be, and I can tell the audience is greatly effected by the
> effects terrible sound....
>
> sorry, I could resist that......
>
> actually I stopped by because I am quite the linux newbie, at least when
> it comes to KDE, I finally got a machine that would handle it, up till
> now I've only used small 'nix distros consoles, just enough to get my
> fet wet....
>
> I just got startx and KDE up and running and was poking around, and I
> wanted to try a screensave, but the window was overssized so that the
> button I wanted to click was at the bottom, I can't figure out how to
> either resize the window so that it all fits on the screen, or maybe
> it's because I am using a 640 X480 resolution and I should switch ot a
> 600 X 400 maybe...???
>
> It's probably something simple/stupid I'm overlooking, but now matter
> how high I scoot the window up, part of it is "below" the screen.....
>
> hope you don't mind such a dumb "newbie" question, but I feel I've
> accomplished a lot getting this far, with lilo nearly wacking my C:\DOS
> drive and a few failed installation attempts, and finally getting my
> modem recogonized and ppp setup, I'm taking it day by day :)
>
Welcome!  Basically I've discovered that KDE requires at least 800x600 and
is happier with 1024x768. The higher the resolution you can crank, the
better.
Some of dialog boxes/tab windows pretty much demand it.

What distro are you using?

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Jeff Shultz

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