Linux: Screen Resolution Help!!
Screen Resolution Help!!
by coasterfanryan - 8/18/07 8:43 PMI am runnign Ubuntu through wubi, and is there a way choose your screen resolution beside the pre-set ones. On my windows side it runs at 1280x800 and on Ununtu the highest one is 1024x768. If there is a way to make it that could someone let me know.
To begin with..I don't have wubi..
by ahtoi - 8/19/07 9:21 AM In reply to: Screen Resolution Help!! by coasterfanryanMy attempt with wubi download was a failure and I never went back again.
Have you right-click on the desktop and try to configure it?
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by cnet74 - 8/21/07 5:18 AM In reply to: To begin with..I don't have wubi.. by ahtoiMay I ask if the wubi installer installs the Ubuntu in a virtual machine, on top of Vista?
I have a Ubuntu as a virtual box, and in this set up, I can only get a 1280x768. It could be constrained by the presence of two taskbars, one for Vista and one for Ubuntu. Anyway, I used Innotek to set this virtual box.
I came with this issue when I was installing Debian as a Linux newbie last year. The solution was available during the configuration setup.
I think that if you click Applications>Accessories>Terminal, and then type sudo nano /etc/screenrc, there is a value there where you can set the screen resolutions.
Good luck.
Again?
by welrdelr - 8/21/07 4:51 PM In reply to: screen saver by cnet74Using vi, emacs, or VI Improved for text editing will allow a person to modify files.
No esoteric knowledge there.
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by welrdelr - 8/21/07 4:49 PM In reply to: Screen Resolution Help!! by coasterfanryanYou will need to do a text edit of your Xorg.cfg file
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by cnet74 - 8/21/07 10:05 PM In reply to: vi by welrdelrand nothing esoteric or arcane to this text editor either, not as a machine language or CSS or even a package like GIMP would be to someone like me, if I wish to delve my nose into these minuscule, teeny-weeny bit minuteae, that I may be on my first step to become a Linux expert.
very thought-provoking post, Porch...
by the way, have not some of your reverse psychology techniques become so effective they richocheted to haunt you?
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by welrdelr - 8/22/07 4:07 PM In reply to: vi by cnet74There is no reverse psychology here.
The Castilian phrase for what you are doing is "Vos hablas bobaria."
The Portuguese phrase is "Você fale bobagem."
Produce solutions and show us the steps. Even a "newbie" knows a simple shell script.
A reply with a tutorial will tell me and a few others what you do know.
A retort to this will prove you know nothing.
No convoluted explanations, please. Just a direct reply.
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by cnet74 - 8/22/07 10:45 PM In reply to: and by welrdelrSo what do you want to know, just to return the retort you just fielded?
Then I will decide if it is worth my time, okay?
How about the Latin phrase for it: "Voverarum locorum tu?"
Just to put you back to your easy feeling: I am not here just to show off what I know, I leave that to geniuses and experts like you, since your enlarged ego seems to bask on such petty 15-minute of fame.
convolutions can either show acuity or vacuity. Like beauty, it is in the beholders mental capability to appreciate.
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