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trying to understand freebsd
- Thread starter Cheetoz
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I usually right-click on the window manager background and choose exit.
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sometimes when, say, the browser has frozen and pages are not loading,
cntl-alt-backspace
restart X
restart opera
opera offers to startup reloading all the tabbed pages. COOL
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on a laptop, or sometimes when it is convenient, (a different window manager)
I use the command:
pkill X
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if pkill is not installed, "kill #" (you get the number from ps, of the PID) although I just ran it
and it appears the number might be from Xorg not X
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sometimes when, say, the browser has frozen and pages are not loading,
cntl-alt-backspace
restart X
restart opera
opera offers to startup reloading all the tabbed pages. COOL
.....................
on a laptop, or sometimes when it is convenient, (a different window manager)
I use the command:
pkill X
............................
if pkill is not installed, "kill #" (you get the number from ps, of the PID) although I just ran it
and it appears the number might be from Xorg not X
just installed gnome, but I get:
and
the screen resolution is too big! xrandr says its running at 2048x1536. I need it to be 1024.
I was trying to do Xorg -configure in order to fix it, but I couldn't get xserver shut down. I used xorgconfig --textmode to set some wrong settings, so upon reboot I stayed in terminal. Then I did Xorg -configure, but I just had a black screen. rebooting brought me back to gdm with this huge resolution
and
the screen resolution is too big! xrandr says its running at 2048x1536. I need it to be 1024.
I was trying to do Xorg -configure in order to fix it, but I couldn't get xserver shut down. I used xorgconfig --textmode to set some wrong settings, so upon reboot I stayed in terminal. Then I did Xorg -configure, but I just had a black screen. rebooting brought me back to gdm with this huge resolution
I don't use gnome. I use one of the lesser WM (simpler?), of which
I used several
default twm; /windowmaker/; fvwm2; [current one]
sorry no help.
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as with the resolution, there is a keystroke which changes resolution. cntl-plus? I
forget really.
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what i've done is find many xorg.conf's on the web and muddle together one
that sort of fits, then slowly fix errors. Sooner rather than later one that works
usually develops and I immediately back it up along with other pertinent files (xinitrc?)
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I don't use gdm (yet) for the reason stated above (simpler).
I used several
default twm; /windowmaker/; fvwm2; [current one]
sorry no help.
...............
as with the resolution, there is a keystroke which changes resolution. cntl-plus? I
forget really.
..............
what i've done is find many xorg.conf's on the web and muddle together one
that sort of fits, then slowly fix errors. Sooner rather than later one that works
usually develops and I immediately back it up along with other pertinent files (xinitrc?)
...............
I don't use gdm (yet) for the reason stated above (simpler).
After fiddling with FreeBSD/Gnome I got tired of all the "hacks" needed, so I opted for PC-BSD, painless install og audio/Wifi worked out of the box on my Dell D630...:
http://www.pcbsd.org/
http://www.pcbsd.org/