Re: Full-screen vs. Windowed

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- "Patricia M. Godfrey"  wrote:

> experiment and see which if any of the
> properties "take" when
> set from right-clicking on a shortcut, versus
> right-clicking on the
> title bar or a running-in-a-window (even
> temporarily) app.


Hi Patricia,

I wonder if all of that other stuff in Properties
(Memory, Misc., & the other tabs) likewise fails to
take in 2K / XP, unless we do it this way ?

> Robert's post of 9 Mar 2002 01:12:24
>
> >>Open one of those cramped, lousy-looking screens,
> preferably one
> with a Desktop shortcut. Hit Alt-Enter (get the
> session into a
> Desktop window). Right-click on the blue Title bar
> ==> Properties ==>
> Layout ==> Screen Buffer Size: set Width=80,
> Height=25 ==> Window
> Size: set Width=80, Height=25 ==> OK

Yes, it works. (But some of the settings / checkboxes
are a bit different here.) Thanks.

I presume this also applies to Xy-3 under 2K or XP ?

> ==> click
> "Modify shortcut that
> started this window" ==> OK ==> Options ==> Display
> Options ==>
> FullScreen ==> OK

Again, not what I saw. But I worked it out.

> ==> hit Alt-Enter again ==> you
> should have a nice
> looking 25-line FullScreen session with a
> decent-looking VIO font (not
> Ultravision, but then -- what else is?) that's
> repeatable. Do the
> same thing with all your FullScreen apps.<<

So, bottom line, now I have 25 line, 12-pt. Lucida
Console. I don't know how it compares with Siebert
fonts , but it's quite readable, and a vast
improvement over what I've had before. The funny
thing is that I have this vague recollection of having
done a fix like this for a couple of _other_ users'
Xy-under-later-Win installations, though never for my
own, after which I completely lost track of it. Ah
well, they say memory is the second thing to go . . .
.

I'll save this in the UserTips Reference folder.
There are several other unimplemented tweaks on my Xy
"TO DO" List, but this gets it off to a good start.


 Jordan