Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:01:16 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: I haven't actually tried to place an icon on there. I do know that I can place an application window anywhere on the desktop with no problem (that I've noticed so far). I'll try putting an icon there when I'm next at that office and see what happens. Well, now I've tried it. I can put an icon anywhere on the desktop with no problem. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:56:40 -0600 THE REMAINING MINOR ISSUE For some reason, the upper left two-thirds of the desktop background is darker than the rest of the desktop background. It's easier to show than to explain how it looks, so anyone interested can view it here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/1920x1024screenshot.png Looks to me as if a 1024x768 rendering of the background image is being layered on top of a rendering of the same image that has been scaled up to 1920x1024. Have you checked whether you can actually place icons on the lower and right parts of the screen? I'm speculating that the desktop manager is still operating at 1024x768 even though the X screen is larger. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 14:34 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:56:40 -0600 THE REMAINING MINOR ISSUE For some reason, the upper left two-thirds of the desktop background is darker than the rest of the desktop background. It's easier to show than to explain how it looks, so anyone interested can view it here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/1920x1024screenshot.png Looks to me as if a 1024x768 rendering of the background image is being layered on top of a rendering of the same image that has been scaled up to 1920x1024. Have you checked whether you can actually place icons on the lower and right parts of the screen? I'm speculating that the desktop manager is still operating at 1024x768 even though the X screen is larger. I quite recently had something that looked quite similar on my iMac g5 when I had a cable plugged in to the VGA port. he system apparently overlaid the VGA screen over the screen on the built in LCD. Does the OP have a second monitor attached to he system? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:34:42 -0800 Bart Schaefer wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:56:40 -0600 THE REMAINING MINOR ISSUE For some reason, the upper left two-thirds of the desktop background is darker than the rest of the desktop background. It's easier to show than to explain how it looks, so anyone interested can view it here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/1920x1024screenshot.png Looks to me as if a 1024x768 rendering of the background image is being layered on top of a rendering of the same image that has been scaled up to 1920x1024. I agree. It's even more obvious with a different desktop background that's actually a picture. It looks like I've got the background image properly scaled with a smaller portion of the image (I'm not entirely sure if it's the whole image or not) being overprinted on it. Have you checked whether you can actually place icons on the lower and right parts of the screen? I'm speculating that the desktop manager is still operating at 1024x768 even though the X screen is larger. I haven't actually tried to place an icon on there. I do know that I can place an application window anywhere on the desktop with no problem (that I've noticed so far). I'll try putting an icon there when I'm next at that office and see what happens. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:48:38 +0100 Louis Lagendijk wrote: I quite recently had something that looked quite similar on my iMac g5 when I had a cable plugged in to the VGA port. he system apparently overlaid the VGA screen over the screen on the built in LCD. Does the OP have a second monitor attached to he system? This just has a single monitor on it (and just one port to hook a monitor up to). I wonder, though, if there's something under the video setup that's referencing a second (non-existent) monitor. I'll see what System-Preferences-Display has to say for itself when I'm back at that office. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] blue screen instead of login screen
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:56:40 -0600 Frank Cox wrote: I think this machine has a much larger virtual screen than the physical screen. How can I match the virtual screen size to the physical size? I've finally found the solution to this problem with one small aesthetic issue remaining. THE SOLUTION I changed the colour depth to 16 by putting a file named 10-monitor.conf into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Everything now works and looks (mostly) like it should. This is 10-monitor.conf: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 EndSection Section Device Identifier Device0 Driver intel EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Device0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1920x1080 EndSubSection EndSection THE REMAINING MINOR ISSUE For some reason, the upper left two-thirds of the desktop background is darker than the rest of the desktop background. It's easier to show than to explain how it looks, so anyone interested can view it here: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/1920x1024screenshot.png The gdm login screen looks pretty much exactly the same, with the darker background on the upper left. I tried changing the background to a different picture but the result was the same -- still a dark side on the desktop. Any window placed on the desktop looks normal; the dark effect is only on the desktop background(and the login screen). So I guess I can live with this if I have to, but if anyone knows how to get rid of that effect I'm all ears. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
