Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 9.10 vs xorg

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Dec 12 2009 - 11:41:27 EST


On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, draeath wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> I just installed Ubuntu 9.110 in a VM.  Haven't got to use it, mainly
>> getting it fit to run in a limited environment (not much disk or RAM, no
>> printing or IMs, etc).  Gnome's out in favor of xfce, no OpenOffice, that
>> sort of thing.  1. Where the heck did they hide xorg.conf?  2.  What's a
>> goot CLI tool (or one whose output can be dumped to a file) for getting the
>> sizes of installed packages?  Right now I'm using something I wrote which
>> takes all the files in a package and adds up their sizes (or something like
>> that).  Needless to say, it's very slow.

> There is no xorg.conf by default. Newer versions of X autodetect
> everything if this file is absent.

OK, I'll give it the chance. How do I tell gdm to use 1400x1050 instead of
800x600? This is in a VM so the hardware's a bit weird.

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into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'
... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage, 1864.
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