X screen not centered

[Eric Lemoine]

On 10/21/06, albi albinootje <albinootje at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/06, Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There's no "save" option in xvidtune. After fixing my screen with
> > xvidtune the latter can show me the current modline, in my case:
> >
> > "1152x768"     65.00   1152 1190 1326 1444    768  771  777  790 +hsync +vsync
> >
> > But I don't know what to put this line...
>
> in the past you would look up the modeline(s) for "1152x768" in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
> and replace them with the above line
>
> it's very likely however that your current xorg.conf has no modelines at all
>
> here's a xorg.conf example
> http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/xorg.conf.txt
> with modelines, looks like the modeline(s) should go in the Monitor-section

Adding the modline to the Monitor section does the trick. I now have a
centered X screen.

Still, this is something I don't understand: I guess most people don't
need such modelines to their xorg.conf, why me? Anyway...

-- 
Eric