Re: display issues

2013-03-10 Thread Harvey Kelly
Hi Michael, > On 03/10/2013 07:23 PM, Michael wrote: >> My display is skewed to the right about 1/4 inch. While in a terminal >> window, I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it comes back to the >> prompt after about two seconds. On 11 March 2013 00:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > It would be h

Re: display issues

2013-03-10 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/10/2013 07:23 PM, Michael wrote: Debian 6.0.7 gdm3 LG Flatron monitor model W2253VP My display is skewed to the right about 1/4 inch. While in a terminal window, I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it comes back to the prompt after about two seconds. I rebooted and logged into r

Re: Display issues

1999-05-15 Thread deblists
On 13 May, Pollywog wrote: > > On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from >> different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. >> To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. > > I dislike having xdm start when

Re: Display issues

1999-05-14 Thread add|ct|on
e.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user list Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Display issues > > On 13-May-99 Brant Wells

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread flip
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:29:14PM -0500, André Bell wrote: I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it takes so long to load on a 486, let alone launch another program within fvwm. I waited a half an hour for a game to load -- don't want to do that again... Is there a way to launch x

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 12 May 1999, André Bell wrote: > Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of > these errors: > >- unable to open display >- cannot connect to X server You get those errors because X is not running. Hmmm, (since you don't want a window manager runn

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread André Bell
Just to make sure I understand, you mean I need to, 1) run startx (which for me launches fvwm) 2) start xterm from within fvwm 3) open the hidden file $HOME/.xinitrc and edit the xterm line 4) then try to run the X programs from within fvwm? I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: > So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from > different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. > To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. I dislike having xdm start when I start the machine, so I removed the

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 May, Pollywog wrote about "Re: Display issues" > > On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: >> Howdy :) >> >> >> You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by >> going into >> your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a l

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Andrew Chung
> Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of > these errors: > >- unable to open display >- cannot connect to X server > It means just that - it can't connect to the x server. You need to run the programs either in xterm (or equivalent) or set the DISPLAY

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: > Howdy :) > > > You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by > going into > your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your > window manager > (usually the last line) to the effect of > > xterm& > > and then t

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last line) to the effect of xterm& and then try to run those programs after you get into X. HTH,. B