felner@iiic.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner) (01/16/91)
Yesterday a strange thing happened to me. When I booted my 520ST, only a quarter of the whole screen was used. I got a mini desktop in the top left quarter of the screen with the samll font being used for the menus and other text, but the standard size desktop icons. Everything seemed to be working fine, I could open and move windows, the TOS copyright box centered correctly within that small portion of the screen. Scrollbars and close boxes were drawn correctly, but they were thinner/smaller due to the smaller font being used. When I rebooted, everything was back to normal. Now I wonder what is necessary in order to make the desktop come up using that small font but the whole screen. Is this possible at all? Has anyone seen something similar? Tomas Felner, felner@iiic.ethz.ch
bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) (01/18/91)
In article <21590@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> felner@iiic.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner) writes: >Yesterday a strange thing happened to me. When I booted my 520ST, only >a quarter of the whole screen was used. I got a mini desktop in the top left >quarter of the screen with the samll font being used for the menus and other >text, but the standard size desktop icons... I've seen that sort of behavior with a multisync monitor. Something having to do with the detection circuitry getting confused, and using the wrong horizontal scan rate, so the resulting image only took up half the screen (and was half as wide). This was strictly a function of the monitor, the computer had no idea anything was going on. -- ################################################################################ # Bill Sheppard -- bills@microware.com -- {uunet,sun}!mcrware!mwca!bill # # Microware Systems Corporation --- OS-9: Seven generations beyond __/_!! # #######Opinions expressed are my own, though you'd be wise to adopt them!#######