Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:43:39AM -0600, Cam wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/21/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hendrik, re your problem, could it be that you have the wrong video > > settings in your XFree86 config? > > I would say it probably is a bad XF86Config-4... maybe he could po

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-21 Thread Cam
Hi, On 7/21/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow me to display my ignorance: what is gdm? Is it another component > of the x-windows-system? When I re-installed x-windows, it asked me to > select gdm or xdm. It's not an acronym for gnome, is it? Let me man it. Gnome Display Manager..

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-21 Thread Adam Hardy
Hendrik Boom on 20/07/05 17:12, wrote: That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as the default window manager, and x-windows is still taking 5 times as long to start up. What part of the config should I be looking at here? I've just upgraded my woody to a sarge, and can't get X to d

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Cam on 20/07/05 15:17, wrote: > >try openbox. You can switch w/ openbox --replace. It's fully > >GNOME-compliant so it should be a pretty seamless switch (it was for > >me). > > That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as th