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(...) Haven't played a whole lot with Toshibas, so I'm not sure what the BIOS access keys are...your manual should tell you how to get into and check BIOS settings. Hmm. Did Matthew's suggestion help? That would be my next guess. Then confirm that (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Windows. (...) Toshiba Tecra 530 CDT, Win 95 (...) LCD/CRT didn't help, and I have no idea how to mess with BIOS. Alan (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What kind of Laptop? What version of Windows? My instinctive response is "check the bios" and "toggle the LCD/CRT setting" HTH James (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is a guess: your laptop has a 1024x768 or 800x600 screen, and some program has decided to shift you into 640x480 mode. On a desktop PC, that'd be fine -- it'd just make the pixels bigger. Things would be blockier, but you'd have the same (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The used screen space on my laptop shrunk for no specific reason. Could you people help me fix this? I can't do anything major like reinstalling Windows. Please help! TIA Alan (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:10:36 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) Well, take a look at rxvt - I think it's installed by default in RH 6.1... one sec, yup, it is - though it's ver 2.6 instead of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Uhm, Hmm, I dunno. It's what's installed by default from RHL6.1 when I click the terminal icon at the bottom of the panel, and I like it. What others should I try? Looks like xterm is somewhat configurable but I haven't read its manpage (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:46:51 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors': (...) display... but now I must ask why are you using gnome-term anyhow? :P (...) that's always a good idea... may I ask what it is? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, I'm not exactly trying to do anything weird, but I would like arbitrary- colored text to display properly on a white background. Here's what I'm doing: (URL) get that to work, I had to tell it to make red-on-black text, gray-on-black (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've never been able to read white-on-black (or gray-on-black) text comfortably at small point sizes, due to the way raster CRT displays scan. White-on-black characters are constructed like this: _______ _(_______)_ (_) (_) (_)_______ (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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