I tried reconfiguring but now I'm in a worse pickle than ever... When I first installed Xserver I was at least able to ctrl-alt-delete out of it (returning to a console view of the world), and edit the XF86Config-4 file and then run startx again and see how my changes changed X-Windows' behaviour. But now I'm stuck within gnome and my mouse is dead. Ctrl-alt-delete has no effect. And even if I did have a working mouse, I'm unclear how to get truly out of the GUI. When I logout of Gnome I go to the graphical log-in page and am offered no options other than logging right back in. So I'm not sure that I'm truly out of x-windows (though I think perhaps I am).
So my question is, How can I use the keyboard to kill X-Windows (as my mouse is dead)? And while I'm at it, how can I truly shut down linux. Because I am not offered that option from the login page. Isn't there some simple set of keystrokes that will tell linux to shutdown from anywhere like ctrl-alt-delete does in Windows? Help is appreciated as I'm a recent windows convert and I'm struggling to process the linux functionality through my expectation of windows functionality. BTW - FWIW I've found Debian much easier to install than I expected it would be. It's when something doesn't go according to plan that there's so much more to learn than in Windows. At least for a windows user... alan -----Original Message----- From: Geordie Birch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help configuring my monitor resolution... said alan brown (on 2002-12-04), > The screen appears stuck on a 800x600 resolution. I've looked at the > manual try auto configuring X with debconf and the discover (and mdetect) packages: make sure you have discover and mdetect installed; backup your 'good' XF86Config-4; purge X: dpkg --force-depends --purge xserver-xfree86 reinstall and autoconfigure X: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 autoconfiguration only works with a fresh install - dpkg-reconfigure will not redo it. HT works for you. Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]