Video Display Size in a Laptop

[Brad De Vries]

On 10/7/05, Thomas Condon <tomc at sounddsl.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Sometimes I feel like the village idiot.  This is one of those times.  I
> know the question was asked on this forum, and answered.  I know I've
> used that answer.  I can't remember it. I can't find it in the last
> year's messages, either.
>
> My old IBM 770 laptop has SuSE 9.3 running on it and is only using the
> middle third of the screen when I set it to higher resolution.  Someone
> on this forum pointed out a simple keystroke combo that makes it use the
> full display.  Can one of you kind people refresh my intermittent memory
> about how to do this?  Thanks.  I'll put the answer on my memory stick
> this time, instead of on a machine that can die.
>
> Tom

It seems like I used to occasionally press   <CTRL><ALT> +    and  
<CTRL><ALT> -   to change the resolution, but it was a long time ago
so who knows...

HTH,
Brad.