Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
As for adding a printer someone finally gave me the link to the correct document which showed how to do it. I received a link where you can download the CentOS manual in PDF format: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/pdf/ but the guy didn't tell me which manual I'm suppose to download. I cant tell what's what by the name so unless someone here can point me in the right directions I'm still waiting on their response.
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
You just had to log out and back in, shouldn't need to reboot.
As for adding a printer someone finally gave me the link to the correct document which showed how to do it. I received a link where you can download the CentOS manual in PDF format: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/pdf/ but the guy didn't tell me which manual I'm suppose to download. I cant tell what's what by the name so unless someone here can point me in the right directions I'm still waiting on their response.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ has more verbose descriptions of the filenames. e.g. rhel-ig-* is the "Installation Guide". rhel-isa-* is the "Introduction to Systems Administration".
I would probably suggest reading the Step By Step, Intro to Sys Admin and the RHEL Reference Guide as a start.
Matt
Thanks for the link to the guides. As for logging out and back in I haven't found a way to do that yet. Hell only reason I know how to reboot it without hitting the reboot button on the box is because we had an old and I mean really old SERIAL network Aix Unix box one time.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 7:41 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thanks
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
You just had to log out and back in, shouldn't need to reboot.
As for adding a printer someone finally gave me the link to the correct document which showed how to do it. I received a link where you can
download
the CentOS manual in PDF format: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/pdf/ but the guy didn't tell me which manual I'm suppose to download. I cant tell
what's
what by the name so unless someone here can point me in the right
directions
I'm still waiting on their response.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ has more verbose descriptions of the filenames. e.g. rhel-ig-* is the "Installation Guide". rhel-isa-* is the "Introduction to Systems Administration".
I would probably suggest reading the Step By Step, Intro to Sys Admin and the RHEL Reference Guide as a start.
Matt
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 07:49 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
Thanks for the link to the guides. As for logging out and back in I haven't found a way to do that yet. Hell only reason I know how to reboot it without hitting the reboot button on the box is because we had an old and I mean really old SERIAL network Aix Unix box one time.
If your running the default Gnome GUI then it's under the "Actions" menu.
Paul
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
You just had to log out and back in, shouldn't need to reboot.
Strange... I'm using KDE, typing this reply in Mozilla Mail and have used cntl+alt+"+" to cycle through all three resolutions since starting this sentence! There. I'm back to 1024x768 again. Point is, I neither rebooted nor logged out nor closed/opened the application. I'm wondering if Chris did something wrong on installation that's gonna bite him in butt repeatedly.
As for adding a printer someone finally gave me the link to the correct document which showed how to do it. I received a link where you can download the CentOS manual in PDF format: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/pdf/ but the guy didn't tell me which manual I'm suppose to download. I cant tell what's what by the name so unless someone here can point me in the right directions I'm still waiting on their response.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ has more verbose descriptions of the filenames. e.g. rhel-ig-* is the "Installation Guide". rhel-isa-* is the "Introduction to Systems Administration".
I would probably suggest reading the Step By Step, Intro to Sys Admin and the RHEL Reference Guide as a start.
Matt
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:05 -0500, Robert wrote:
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
You just had to log out and back in, shouldn't need to reboot.
Strange... I'm using KDE, typing this reply in Mozilla Mail and have used cntl+alt+"+" to cycle through all three resolutions since starting this sentence! There. I'm back to 1024x768 again. Point is, I neither rebooted nor logged out nor closed/opened the application. I'm wondering if Chris did something wrong on installation that's gonna bite him in butt repeatedly.
Probably not ... the installer probably just selected one resolution by default. The system-config-display GUI looks like it only lets you select one screen resolution only.
I normally manually add the resolutions I want at home by editing the xorg.conf file. The CentOS systems I'm running are servers and don't have the GUI setup on them and it's been a bit since I've done a Workstation/Desktop install.
Paul
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:40:34AM -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:33:39AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
You just had to log out and back in, shouldn't need to reboot.
There is always CTRL ALT BACKSPACE.
For the new ones around here, it simply kills and restarts X. Sometimes, even loging out and back in won't be enough to restart X. So you log out and when presented with the login screen (gdm, usually), you do a CTRL ALT BACKSPACE just to make certain it restarts.
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 07:33 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
Geez! What am I doing wrong? I've been using this for *years*.
Recall thye aprt I said "... to get multiple resolutions"? Apparently you don't have multiple resolutions yet.
I have 4 resolutions that I cycle through using <ctrl>-<alt> with numeric keypad + or -.
If you find your xorg.conf file, see if you have a line similar to this
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
If not, you only have a single fixed resolution and the <ctl> thingy has nothing to do.
<snip>
I was unable to find a xorg.conf file. Bloody Linux does not have a search feature to find the files and I have been unsuccessful in locating it. When I go to the GUI portion to change resolutions I have the same options as you listed below. As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how to log out.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 7:55 AM To: CentOS General List Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thanks
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 07:33 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
Geez! What am I doing wrong? I've been using this for *years*.
Recall thye aprt I said "... to get multiple resolutions"? Apparently you don't have multiple resolutions yet.
I have 4 resolutions that I cycle through using <ctrl>-<alt> with numeric keypad + or -.
If you find your xorg.conf file, see if you have a line similar to this
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
If not, you only have a single fixed resolution and the <ctl> thingy has nothing to do.
<snip>
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Chris Peikert wrote:
I was unable to find a xorg.conf file. Bloody Linux does not have a search feature to find the files and I have been unsuccessful in locating it.
linux does, in fact, have several such features.
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+find+files
When I go to the GUI portion to change resolutions I have the same options as you listed below. As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how to log out.
have you read the Step By Step Guide, which i and others have now recommended to you several times?
section 1, subsection 8. "Logging Out".
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sbs-en-4/s1-starting-logout.html
please read.
-steve
--- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
Thanks for the log out info. I found it under the Actions tab as specified. I swore I looked through there before and never found it. As for the manuals I been needing them for 2 weeks now and last night finally someone sent me a good link to where the manuals were that I could download. I found others but they were abbreviated so I couldn't tell what manual was for what and there was no readme file listed anywhere that explained what the abbreviations ment. Now that I started downloading them and printing them today I will have something to help me out now instead of bugging yall. Thanks again.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Huff Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 8:51 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thanks
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Chris Peikert wrote:
I was unable to find a xorg.conf file. Bloody Linux does not have a search feature to find the files and I have been unsuccessful in locating it.
linux does, in fact, have several such features.
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+find+files
When I go to the GUI portion to change resolutions I have the same options as you listed below. As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how to log out.
have you read the Step By Step Guide, which i and others have now recommended to you several times?
section 1, subsection 8. "Logging Out".
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sbs-en-4/s1-starting-logout.html
please read.
-steve
--- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
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Chris Peikert wrote:
I was unable to find a xorg.conf file. Bloody Linux does not have a search feature to find the files and I have been unsuccessful in locating it. When I go to the GUI portion to change resolutions I have the same options as you listed below. As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how to log out.
"Bloody" Linux is eat smooth up with search features. Try: Either the find command $ find / - name xorg.conf --OR-- much faster once slocate database update has been done [rj@mavis ~]$ locate xorg.conf /oldetc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5x.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/xorg.conf [rj@mavis ~]$ --OR-- if you really must use GUI, there's a search feature there also. Don't know what its called in Gnome but in the KDE desktop they use the very novel name "Find Files".
The database used by the locate command is updated by running (as root) the command "updatedb". Not too cryptic, huh? For the database to be automatically updated while you're testing your eyelids for light leaks, edit the file /etc/updatedb.conf and down a few lines change the line that says DAILY_UPDATE=no to DAILY_UPDATE=yes and your database will be updated at 4:something each morning.
As far as logging out, I can't help you in Gnome but in KDE the option is "Logout...".
"Help" is located 'tween "Find Files" and "Logout..." in the KDE menu.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 7:55 AM To: CentOS General List Subject: Re: [CentOS] Thanks
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 07:33 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
Geez! What am I doing wrong? I've been using this for *years*.
Recall thye aprt I said "... to get multiple resolutions"? Apparently you don't have multiple resolutions yet.
I have 4 resolutions that I cycle through using <ctrl>-<alt> with numeric keypad + or -.
If you find your xorg.conf file, see if you have a line similar to this
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
If not, you only have a single fixed resolution and the <ctl> thingy has nothing to do.
<snip>
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:28 -0500, Robert wrote:
Chris Peikert wrote:
I was unable to find a xorg.conf file. Bloody Linux does not have a search feature to find the files and I have been unsuccessful in locating it. When I go to the GUI portion to change resolutions I have the same options as you listed below. As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how to log out.
"Bloody" Linux is eat smooth up with search features. Try: Either the find command $ find / - name xorg.conf --OR-- much faster once slocate database update has been done [rj@mavis ~]$ locate xorg.conf /oldetc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5x.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/xorg.conf [rj@mavis ~]$ --OR-- if you really must use GUI, there's a search feature there also. Don't know what its called in Gnome but in the KDE desktop they use the very novel name "Find Files".
The database used by the locate command is updated by running (as root) the command "updatedb". Not too cryptic, huh? For the database to be automatically updated while you're testing your eyelids for light leaks, edit the file /etc/updatedb.conf and down a few lines change the line that says DAILY_UPDATE=no to DAILY_UPDATE=yes and your database will be updated at 4:something each morning.
As far as logging out, I can't help you in Gnome but in KDE the option is "Logout...".
"Help" is located 'tween "Find Files" and "Logout..." in the KDE menu.
And let us not forget the "whereis" command... oops. That requires knowledge of something like a file/command name, which would have been acquired had Chris followed any of the reading advisories provided him.
Ta-ta.
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, William L. Maltby wrote:
And let us not forget the "whereis" command... oops. That requires knowledge of something like a file/command name, which would have been acquired had Chris followed any of the reading advisories provided him.
Ta-ta.
or "man -k something" or "apropos something"
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine
On 07/04/06, Chris Peikert c.peikert@co.matagorda.tx.us wrote:
I was unable to find a xorg.conf file. Bloody Linux does not have a search feature to find the files and I have been unsuccessful in locating it. When I go to the GUI portion to change resolutions I have the same options as you listed below. As for rebooting vs logging out ... I still haven't figured out how to log out.
man find man locate man updatedb
Use find to lookup files. Run updatedb and then locate to lookup file names very fast.
With grep you can not only locate files but also "look" into them for a particular text string(s)
....some thing about bloody Linux?? -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux
On 07/04/06, Chris Peikert c.peikert@co.matagorda.tx.us wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
As root or sudo service gdm restart should do it.
As for adding a printer someone finally gave me the link to the correct document which showed how to do it. I received a link where you can download the CentOS manual in PDF format: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/pdf/ but the guy didn't tell me which manual I'm suppose to download. I cant tell what's what by the name so unless someone here can point me in the right directions I'm still waiting on their response.
If you are looking to be sppon fed....!!!??? bye.....
-- Sudev Barar Learning Linux
On Friday 07 April 2006 08:33, Chris Peikert wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. To resize my screen I had to go through the GUI part and change it but unlike Microsoft it makes me reboot in order for it to take affect which sucks. The Ctrl Alt +/- does not work.
Just as a small reminder, the Ctrl Atl +/- thing only works with the 'gray' plus and minus keys, the ones on the keypad. On my laptop, for instance, using the regular plus and minus doesn't work; I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-"Fn-/" or "Fn-;" to get the keypad plus and minus. Not sure if Numlock status does anything with the plus and minus.
I have to use this combination whenever I do a new install on my Dell Inspiron 600m; it has the high-res option (1400x1050) and will not display at 800x600, the default installer resolution. I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Fn-; to go down to 640x480 to see the install screen. I am now on Fedora Core 5 on the laptop; while CentOS 4 is a great server OS, the desktop, even with Rex's excellent KDE-Redhat work, is lacking lots of amenities that FC5 has. I really don't like being on the 6 month cycle; but, it's only been a year on the CentOS 4 side, so I guess I can upgrade to every other FC version....
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