I wanted to change the screen resolution used during the gdm and map some buttons on my mouse. I normally accomplish this using an xorg.conf file, but I noticed that Fedora (and every other distro) no longer uses this as it's not even present. I read on the Fedora Forums that one could still create it, place it in /etc/X11, and Xorg would use it. I tried that, but it didn't use it. After some searching, it appears that Xorg uses HAL for everything now and that I must use HAL's fdi configuration files. I saw examples to configure the mouse, but none to configure the resolutions. I then read on a forum that you can cause xorg.conf to be read by including the Option "AutoAddDevices" False in the ServerFlags section. So I tried that and now I'm locked out. Is there any good documentation on what I'm trying to accomplish? I noticed everything on HAL, and Xorg in general, is very dated, at around 2005-6. How can I just prevent X from starting up, so I can delete that file? Currently I have the plymouth boot going so I'm not sure how to stop the process.
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of workspaces in Gnome? I couldn't find an option so I ended up installed gconf. I thought I found the option in apps->metacity->number of workspaces, but changing that does nothing.
thanks
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:20 -0500, anonymous wrote:
I wanted to change the screen resolution used during the gdm and map some buttons on my mouse. I normally accomplish this using an xorg.conf file, but I noticed that Fedora (and every other distro) no longer uses this as it's not even present.
GDM doesn't use the same Xorg server, it used to be possible to configure its display by giving it an xorg.conf file in its own /etc/gdm/ directory. See if that's still the case.
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of workspaces in Gnome?
In Fedora 9, and prior releases, you can right click on the workspace switcher, and set preferences. I don't know if that's changed in newer releases.
2009/4/19 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:20 -0500, anonymous wrote:
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of workspaces in Gnome?
In Fedora 9, and prior releases, you can right click on the workspace switcher, and set preferences. I don't know if that's changed in newer releases.
I thought that too until I tried that after reading this post. Did something change in an update?
suvayu ali wrote:
2009/4/19 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:20 -0500, anonymous wrote:
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of workspaces in Gnome?
In Fedora 9, and prior releases, you can right click on the workspace switcher, and set preferences. I don't know if that's changed in newer releases.
I thought that too until I tried that after reading this post. Did something change in an update?
It still works on my Fedora 10 system.
Mikkel
2009/4/20 Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel@infinity-ltd.com:
suvayu ali wrote:
2009/4/19 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:20 -0500, anonymous wrote:
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of workspaces in Gnome?
In Fedora 9, and prior releases, you can right click on the workspace switcher, and set preferences. I don't know if that's changed in newer releases.
I thought that too until I tried that after reading this post. Did something change in an update?
It still works on my Fedora 10 system.
When I right click on the workspace switcher and click preferences, I get a window with radio buttons for
Show only the current workspace, and Shaw all workspaces in: _____ rows
I'm on F10 x86_64, Gnome. I however did find a key in gconf,
/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/number_of_workspaces
However the description said its deprecated; "The number of workspaces the window manager should use This key has been deprecated since GNOME 2.12."
Is something wrong here?
suvayu ali skrev:
2009/4/19 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:20 -0500, anonymous wrote:
Also, on a side note, does anyone know how to change the number of workspaces in Gnome?
In Fedora 9, and prior releases, you can right click on the workspace switcher, and set preferences. I don't know if that's changed in newer releases.
I thought that too until I tried that after reading this post. Did something change in an update?
Fwiw, I'm on F10 and the procedure works here.
Frode Petersen
anonymous-91 wrote:
How can I just prevent X from starting up, so I can delete that file? Currently I have the plymouth boot going so I'm not sure how to stop the process.
When you boot, interrupt the boot process and edit the kernel line to put the number "3" at the end. Then continue the boot into runlevel 3. Login and remove the file and then reboot which should revert to what you had before with a full graphical login in runlevel 5
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked@gmail.comwrote:
anonymous-91 wrote:
How can I just prevent X from starting up, so I can delete that file? Currently I have the plymouth boot going so I'm not sure how to stop the process.
When you boot, interrupt the boot process and edit the kernel line to put the number "3" at the end. Then continue the boot into runlevel 3. Login and remove the file and then reboot which should revert to what you had before with a full graphical login in runlevel 5
Thanks, that worked. I wasn't sure how to interrupt the boot process since
the grub menus was hidden. I read the manual and I just needed to press escape.
When I right click on the workspace switcher and click preferences, I
get a window with radio buttons for
Show only the current workspace, and Shaw all workspaces in: _____ rows
I'm on F10 x86_64, Gnome. I however did find a key in gconf,
/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/number_of_workspaces
However the description said its deprecated; "The number of workspaces the window manager should use This key has been deprecated since GNOME 2.12."
Is something wrong here?
I'm not using x86_64 but that's exactly how mine works. The preferences no longer include the option to change the number of workspaces, just the number of rows.