On 1/1/06, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LinuxRocks! wrote: > > Flux is nice, pity its not working for you. Have you tried xfce4, its > > decent, fairly lightweight. Im a big enligtenment fan, so mostly I use > > it, but it may not be for you... but you can try it, it wont hurt > > (much). > > > > Jamie > > I'm starting to think the problem is Ubuntu. It appears to > be rather tightly linked to Gnome, so that other WMs are > treated as bastard children. > > I will be abandoning Ubuntu since it doesn't support my > unusual monitor. And since there is no XF86Config file, > I can't fix it.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf I had no real difficulty setting up Ubuntu on my new laptop which has a 16:10 widescreen (1280 x 800), I did have to download a utility to rewrite the videoBIOS settings on boot so that X.org picks up that the modeline Ubuntu created is in fact valid but, that's an intel issue not an Ubuntu one. > > Once I get back to a working Debian I will try FB again. > -- > Allen > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 02:52:47PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote: > > > >>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:52:47 -0800 > >>From: Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > >>Subject: [Eug-lug] Fluxbox? > >> > >>I finally had to logout and reboot. (Moving my computer.) > >>When I brought it up again I found, to my shock, that KDE > >>was not longer on my computer. And apt-get install failed. > >>The fail message implied that there was something > >>wrong with the package. > >> > >>OK. Fine. I had been planning to migrate from KDE anyway. > >>So lets try Fluxbox; recommended by several folks on this > >>list almost a year ago. > >> > >>Installs OK. But it doesn't work. Oh, it comes up. And I > >>can start things like terminals. But I can't resize them. > >>The decorations are completely missing. > >> > >>So I installed several others: blackbox, fvwm, wmaker. All > >>of them can resize terminals. The online FAQ for fluxbox is > >>worthless, mostly talking about how to implement eye candy. > >> > >>Fluxbox is all fluxed up. I don't know where to look. Any > >>hints? > >>-- > >>Allen > >>_______________________________________________ > >>EUGLUG mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does?
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