> 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?

> --
> Jeff Shultz

I beg to differ, I have mine running on 640x480 and 800x600.  I use the
640x480 and run xterms with 9x15 size chars on my 19" monitor so I can
read email and fidomail without straining my eyes. I am running RedHat V8
and all its upates todate.

Warren

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