[Novalug] Great time

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Mon Oct 12 15:38:39 EDT 2009


yes, but that doesn't seem to help with either of my problems.

greg pryzby wrote:
> if there is an xorg.conf, it will be used. otherwise, the system is 
> configured on the fly...
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd 
> <JECottrell3@comcast.net <mailto:JECottrell3@comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
>     I have an acer X221W 22" widescreen 1680x1050 monitor. when i run centos
>     5.3, i get only about 90% of the width covered with the blue login
>     background of gdm, unless i hit CTRL-ALT-+, which gives me the whole
>     screen. unfortunately, using system-config-display doesn't really help
>     either, giving me progressively weirder effects, making me wish i had
>     squirreled away the original xorg.conf.
> 
>     and fedora and/or ubuntu don't even seem to have an xorg.conf. i'd like
>     to see an option to disable the stupid mouse area on a laptop when you
>     have a real mouse connected. I always bounce my thumbs on those.
> 
>     jim



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