Installing to harddisk

anticapitalista
Posts: 5,959
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#16
Yes it should be.

You may also need to change the DefaultColorDepth from 16 to 24.
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#17
If you monitor supports 1280x960 why do you want to knock it back to 1024x768? This will make everything real big on that monitor. Do you have a vision problem?

eriefisher
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Piedie
Joined: 01 May 2008
#18
eriefisher wrote:If you monitor supports 1280x960 why do you want to knock it back to 1024x768? This will make everything real big on that monitor. Do you have a vision problem?

eriefisher
Yes and the problem is the text of Conky, in the top left of the screen, is partially outside the screen and I do not know how to correct this other than by choosing another resolution. Have you got another idea?
By the way the resolution 1024x768 on a 15 inch monitor is okay to me.

I have some other problem. I do not know whether this is screen or resolution related. It is about suddenly starting to 'flicker'. But because this thread is about installing on a harddisk I will start another one about this.

Thanks,

Piedie
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DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#19
Piedie, conky is completely configurable by changing things in your .conkyrc file (which resides in your home directory). If you can post the contents of that here, maybe someone could point to what you could change to make it work better for your screen?

As a starter, check the width settings in the conky config.... they'll look something like the following:

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# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 210 5

# Maximum width of window
maximum_width 210
Changing that could help, or also maybe change the font size?

Anyway, post the config when you get a chance. __{{emoticon}}__
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Piedie
Joined: 01 May 2008
#20
anticapitalista wrote:Yes it should be.

You may also need to change the DefaultColorDepth from 16 to 24.
Okay. I changed all the 1280x960 to 1024x768. Everything seems all right to me now. I left the DefaultColorDepth at 16 for the moment.
I do not understand (yet) why I had to change so many times the values. I guess I do not really understand what is all the info in xorg.conf. But maybe I will later. It is enough for now.

My next challenge will be setting up my Canon i455 printer. I found some info on the Mepis site. I will start a new topic of it when it gives troubles. Maybe I will"meet" you then again.... __{{emoticon}}__

O, by the way: I edited the xorg.conf file with vi. What would you choose?

Thanks,

Piedie

P.S.: DJiNN I will leave Conky for what it is now. Maybe I will come back to that later __{{emoticon}}__
anticapitalista
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#21
antiX comes with nano, so I would use that. You could also use the test editor leafpad as root (if in X).

It is probably easier to set up printer via the cups server online. Hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult, though you may need to install extra apps.


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You probably should have hit F3 at the boot menu when using the livecd to choose the correct resolution. But glad all is well.