Forum: Desktop / X-Windows

Hi linux gurus I tried to load linux4 in my PC but its not detecting my SATA hard drive. what can i do for it.. please relpy

I believe that I have a memory leak problem. When I start X, it uses only 20 megs of ram and everything is dandy. However, after 5 days, sometimes as...

Hi I have the following senario, I have "Linuxed-box" with two VGA cards: AGP card (SiS 315PRO) & PCI card (S3 virge). "lspci" o/p: 01:00.0 VGA...

Not to go completely off topic, but how do change the background image for your desktop with ROX filer?

How would I go about getting a program to start when x-windows starts. I am using Gnome, if that matters. I'd prefer to know which file to edit (or...

Hello everyone, I don't know if any of you have tried this out, but I've been messing around with Xorg transparency using xcompmgr and transset on...

So, I've just switched to linux again, now that I finally have enough time on my hands to actually dig in and figure out how things work, and most...

Hi, I have KDE running with a dual screen setup. I have an ati radeon x300 card and I configured it with fglrxconfig. Now I installed xfce so I...

I have two monitors hooked up to my server, and i would like to have one displaying the output of: tail -f /var/log/apache2/access_log and another...

Hello Everyone. This is my first time at this site so please bear with me if I put this post in the wrong place. I would like to know how these...

I've installed xfce an my LFS build. and it works for the most part. The only problem is that the window manager settings are forgotten when i start...

Well here is the problem and I will try to give as much info as I can... I am using xfce4-svn, I was editing the menu with the graphical menu...

I have no idea how to install the newest version of KDE (3.5). http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/3.5/SuSE/ix86/9.3/ At that...

This is not a "How do I...?" but a "Why did it happen?" question. I use Red Hat 9 but I don't use gnome because it runs too slowly on my legacy...

When I log on to my desktop in gnome. It takes an awful long time to see the desktop. Usually 3-5 minutes. I dont know what it could be. If I log on...

Hi guys, my KDE had stopped working after I had updated OpenOffice.org via apt-get. When I downgraded the package back everything was ok. This...

I'm writing this post because I have recently reinstalled gentoo on my laptop and decided I would go with something a little more minimalist (had...

I find myself asking this question from time to time and after running a few different search's on these and other forums it would appear as if...

Well, being that I have Eterm installed as well as other terminals, it appears as if Esetroot is my default wallpaper changer. $ fbsetbg -i ...

I have been trying to update KDE to the ltest version but not having any luck. I was told to download an FTP and use this in YAST. I tried this and...