Screen settings

I’ve not been using RISC OS for a while so things are a bit hazy right now.

I’m using the 1.9 rom on a BB-xM, would some kind soul remind me how I make my screen settings survive a reboot?

I do have a CMOS widget fitted if that helps.

Cheers,

Edit: As soon as I post, the xM now seems to be saving state, I assume to the wigdet! Very odd, as I’ve been struggling with this for two days.

Success? If not…

Switcher icon – menu – Configure – Screen. Choose your settings & ‘Set’.

Edit: As soon as I post, the xM now seems to be saving state, I assume to the wigdet! Very odd, as I’ve been struggling with this for two days.

Its the way the world works :-)

BTW. When you say you are using the 1.9 ROM I presume you mean the 5.19 ROM – but that version has numerous sub-versions which are best referred to by the date stamp.

Not sure how to ‘quote’ here but Frederick, success yes, but “Switcher icon – menu – Configure – Screen. Choose your settings & ‘Set’” was exactly what I was doing but it always reverted after a power cycle, until now.

Steve, yes, my bad, 5.19 ROM as of yesterday.

Thanks.

Not sure how to ‘quote’

blockquote in < > before the quoted text and /blockquote after the text. The style marking is “Textile” and round here rather than swear by it, people swear at it.

success yes, but “Switcher icon – menu – Configure – Screen. Choose your settings & ‘Set’” was exactly what I was doing but it always reverted after a power cycle, until now.

Steve, yes, my bad, 5.19 ROM as of yesterday.

If you did a recent update of the ROM image and the HardDisc4.util you may have fed in a fix there.
I need to do that update as the last week or more has been a reset of settings unless I write protected the “Monitor” file in !boot.choices.boot.predesk.configure to stop the first line being commented out.

blockquote in < > before the quoted text and /blockquote after the text.

Alternatively, just begin a new line with "bq. " (b, q, dot, space). Follow on with the quote, it’ll continue to the next blank line. If quoting in a reply, leave a blank line before the "bq. " part.
You’ll get used to how awful Textile is. ;-)

rather than swear by it, people swear at it.

Openly, and without shame.
Notice Steve’s example says “blockquote in < >”? That’s because getting such simple things as <blockquote> ... </blockquote> is an uphill struggle at times. If ever something needed a “Preview” option, this is it.

My advice – remember <notextile> ... </notextile>. When you’re beating your head off the wall ‘cos Textile is giving you untold grief, never forget there is an option to turn the damn thing off, so you can fall back to basic HTML markup instead. Just, don’t try to do the sort of stuff in Textile that you might have thought possible in HTML – it will work, sort of, in a broken twisted way with added zombies. You don’t want that.

Screen. Choose your settings & ‘Set’” was exactly what I was doing

Ah, thought I was probably sucking eggs but you never know.

I have been continuing to play with the display, in an attempt to get 1680×1050 (which I cannot achieve – the best I can get is 1280×1020@57Hz) and it seems it wasn’t the way I was doing things but the actual MDF that I was choosing. If I use a mode from ‘Generic’ and it’s acceptable, it sticks. If I choose a mode from a different group, it doesn’t stick.

Very starnge!

I had thought I’d be able to use the same MDF as I use on the Iyonix (with the same monitor) to achieve my aim of 1680×1050 but no joy.

Thank you for the quoting tips by the way.