On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:14:09PM -0400, Scott Glover wrote: > this is driving me nutz! > > btw: i've been searching for the answer... and now i'm here. > > problem: xwindows settings will not save. I'm still busy configuring x and > related things... but every setting i change gets reset once the server is > rebooted or x is restarted. For example; i'll run xvidtune to get my > display nice and centred...restart, back where it was. > > What do I need to do to get these settings to stick?
Try starting xvidtune from xterm, change the setting and push the "show" button. That will make xvidtune to echo a modeline in the xterm window. Then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config (or if you are running version 4.0 or later of XF86 XF86Config-4) and create a Modeline with these values, you may have to remove other Modelines to ensure that your own will be used. > > > question: which conf file starts x at boot? Currently my system > automatically starts x and I can't get out of it. Exit just puts me back at > the x login screen. How can I change this? > a) Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 and you should get the first virtual console. Alt-F7 normally gives you X back. b) /etc/init.d/[x|k|g|dm] stop will shutdown X. c) to make that change survive a reboot you could either "apt-get remove xdm" (or whatever display-manager you use) or, if you want to make this a learning experience, let xdm run only in certain runlevels (see man update-rc.d and man init)
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