X screen not centered

C Hamel yogich at sc2000.net
Sat Oct 21 18:15:31 UTC 2006


On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:07, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> 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
Must depend upon the monitor.  I had that prob w/Red Hat on my Gateway monitor 
but just used the auto-controls on the monitor for adjustment.  Many yrs ago, 
as I prev. stated, I had that prob.  Guess it must be not all that common.
-- 
	...CH
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