So far so good for the most part after installing 9.1 on my IBM Thinkpad 1412. Very nice installer. In any case, I find that I am unable to change X's resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768. During initial install I tried but then decided against the higher resolution, going with 800x600, but after starting KDE 3.1 (very nice) I just hate the size of the default fonts, etc. Rather than changing every single one of them manually, I would first like to change to a higher resolution (1024x768) to see if this will work for me. I can't. I have started mcc and set the resolution there to 1024x768 and rebooted. Still 800x600. I separately started XFdrake and see that it SAYS 1024x768 but the resolution is still 800x600. Also, trying to test the settings fails: xfs gets shutdown and restarted but then an error message appears in my xterm (from which I started the app) saying that xfs isn't running (it IS running). In no case am I able to get the resolution to 1024x768. I know it can do it because it did originally during the install process. How do I change resolution in 9.1 when it refuses to let me? I am even considering removing all references to 800x600 in XFConfig-4 to see if that will force it to 1024x768 but there must be a better way.
As for icons...They are OK but I hate the floppy and cdrom icon titles displayed. Their names are way too long. Right now, by default, I have a CDROM icon titled: CDROM mounted on mnt/cdrom and Floppy mounted on mnt/floppy I want to change these to CDROM and Floppy. I don't need nor want the extraneous wording. I am offered no option to rename these icons even in their respective properties windows. The names don't highlight upon single clicking either so I cannot edit the names directly. Their context menus don't offer a "delete" option either. How does one change the names of these desktop icons? Must I (attempt) to drag them to the trash, dump the trash, and then manually create proper icons with the short, simple names I want? praedor
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