F14: what replaces s-c-d?
Chris Tyler
chris at tylers.info
Wed Nov 10 17:09:33 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:57 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> By "s-c-d" I mean to abbreviate "system-config-display."
>
> I've been running three, sometimes four PCs, behind a series of
> KVM switches, against an HP w2207h monitor, which is a flat panel
> 1680x1050, for some years and several Fedora releases.
>
> Fedora's releases have always had troubles; as, I think, would
> any other OS, since the PCs are generally two to seven years old: at
> least one of them was built before any such resolution as 1680x1050 had
> been invented. (The monitor can compensate down to 1280x1024, or a little
> farther -- if the PC can send that, the monitor can stretch it to fit.)
>
> The troubles have gotten better but are not quite clear gone.
> They've gotten down to this: on some but not all PCs, the cursor showing
> on the screen is a couple millimeters higher than the mouse thinks; and
> some displays' windows cannot be sized nor moved so as to make their
> bottom lines clickable, or even visible.
>
> The big hammer used to be to take each PC in turn out from behind
> the KVM switch, connect it alone directly to the keyboard, mouse, and
> monitor; and use system-config-display.
>
> That would get everything close enough for the monitor to be able
> to handle the difference.
>
> But now I get :
>
> [root at Hbsk1 ~]# system-config-display
> Command not found.
>
> Telling yum to install it fails.
>
> [root at Hbsk1 ~]# yum install system-config-*
>
> finds what I have, and installs a lot more; but system-config-display is
> not among them.
>
> What can I use? This constantly clicking on the wrong place is
> beginning to resemble the classic water torture ....
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
> I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
Not quite as gui-friendly, but you can get X itself to generate a
xorg.conf configuration file:
X -configure :1 # the :1 avoids conflicts with existing X server if any
You can review /root/xorg.conf.new to see if the options are to your
liking. To install it:
mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
-Chris
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