Re: Excuse me for contacting you directly.

[Jesse <Jessebrain ozemail com au>]

yes there is, are you running X from the command line or is it starting
when the machine boots?  if it's when the machine boots then you need
to run the command "ln -fs /usr/bin/gdm /etc/X11/prefdm" for gnome,
"ln -fs /usr/bin/kdm /etc/X11/prefdm" for KDE and"ln -fs /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm 
/etc/prefdm"
for X11 display manager.

This may not fix your problem, merely divert it to another.  if it is too small
than run Xconfigurator, go through the steps and select a lower resolution.


And what do you mean "Excuse me for contacting you directly."?

Jesse


At 08:31 AM 21/07/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Excuse me for contacting you directly. I joined the list but it said my
>message
>was being held for review before posting and I do not know how long that
>takes.
>
>Is there some way to stop Gnome from automatically starting once it's
>installed?
>My x86 install will only run in 1024 x 786 which on a 15 in monitor is
>hard to read.
>(I don't have and can not find the Magnavox SuperVga Monitor sync rates
>or perhaps
>it's just not usable with my Mach 32 card.) Because I am very new to
>Linux I need
>Gnome  when I can not figure out what I need to do on the command line.
>
>regards
>
>Barry Thoms
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jesse <Jessebrain@ozemail.com.au>
>To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
>Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 7:55 AM
>Subject: Re: RH Gnome Sucks ? (For you all to read)
>
>
> > Hi.
> > I Have been following linux for years, as I am sure you all have.  and
>yes
> > I belive the version
> > of gnome released with RH6.0 was not that great, but then again RH 6.0
>was
> > not that great
> > either, it was slow and clunky, but then there was 6.1 which was a
>_VAST_
> > improvement,
> > and now 6.2, and I am sure that very few people that work on gnome and
> > RedHat that feel
> > that what Miguel was quoted correctly.
> >
> > Everyone in the Gnome and RedHat team has made a great effort, and
>linux
> > would not have
> > come this far without their efforts, and I am grateful for all the
>effort
> > everyone else has put in
> > to give me and millions of others out there a tough, reliable and
>stable OS.
> >
> > Keep up the good work, and don't let the press get you down, anyway,
>when
> > was the last time
> > you read the truth??  they allways put a spin on it and never ever
>tell the
> > whole story, just enough
> > for you to jump to a seemingly logical conclusion.
> >
> > Jesse.
> >
> >
> > At 11:51 AM 20/07/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Paul Warren wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:41:02PM -0500, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:46:41 +0100 you wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >  > In today's LWN Miguel is quoted as having said that: If you
>are
> > > thinking
> > > > >  > that GNOME sucks, however, it's probably "because you are
>using
> > > Red Hat's
> > > > >  > version."
> > > > >  >
> > > > >  > I just can't believe the Gnome leader is bashing a company
>that
> > > has always
> > > > >  > been so supportive of this project (not only for including
>Gnome
> > > as their
> > > > >  > primary desktop but also by producing lots of code for the
>project).
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm guessing that he meant a version which was distributed
> > > > > with Red Hat (i.e. an old one).
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, that's what I took it to mean.  Quite a common thread of
> > > > conversation, on this list and others:
> > > >
> > > > "Hey Gnome sux"
> > > > "What version you using?"
> > > > "Whatever comes with RH 6"
> > > > "Ah.  Upgrade..."
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, RH released 6.0 (or was it 6.1) just before October Gnome,
>which
> > > > was by any measure a massive improvement on what was being shipped
>with
> > > > RH.
> > >
> > >So Miguel was quoted out of context then.  What he probably (or
>should
> > >have) said was: "If you think Gnome sucks, you were probably using
>the
> > >version we provided with RH 6.0.  Right after RH 6.0 was released, we
> > >made massive improvements to Gnome.  Looking back, maybe we should
>have
> > >waited until those improvements were finished before rolling Gnome
>out
> > >with the most popular Linux distribution."
> > >
> > >Not knowing any more about the article and the interviewer, I would
> > >guess off the top of my head that this is just another case of the
>media
> > >trying to whip up a controversy where there really is none.  Conflict
> > >sells, almost as much as sex.
> > >
> > >Or, if you're a conspiracy theorist, maybe the interviewer does a lot
>of
> > >side jobs for MSnbc.
> > >
> > >Dan
> > >--
> > >Daniel Lyddy            daniell@cs.berkeley.edu
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> >
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