[frgeek-michiana] Re: Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
- From: "Chuq Jackels" <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 17:31:10 -0400
Take the netbook remix and open up xorg.conf and look and see what they
have. Or just take and download netbook-launcher and go through and
configure everything for, or you know what.. Move your menu bar to the top
of the screen and try it that way
Chqu
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[mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Goldbach
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:10 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
It is enabled but still doesn't allow me to see the buttons at the bottom.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Sun, 5/2/10, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 1:05 PM
That is peculiar; That has always worked for me on whatever window manager.
I know KDE and Gnome support it. Check in Control Center > Desktop > Window
Behavior > Window Actions and see if it is disabled.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Goldbach
Sent: May 1, 2010 7:01 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
Tried that too, the funny thing is that xorg or KDE will not let me do that,
I've already tried that as well. It sees the top of the monitor/screen as
the top and doesn't allow me to drag windows above that so that I can access
the buttons at the bottom.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Sat, 5/1/10, Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 6:39 PM
I know this doesn't precisely solve your problem. Position the mouse cursor
anyplace on the window you need to move, Press and hold the alt key, drag
the window using the left mouse button. This is part of xorg so should work
with any window manager. You can move the windows off the top of the screen
this way so you can get to the buttons.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Goldbach
Sent: May 1, 2010 4:16 PM
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
I forgot to mention that Back Track 4 (BT4) uses KDE. After doing a bit of
searching on both the internet and the BT4 forums, no one's really found an
answer. Some suggested typing this at the console/terminal:
xrandr -s 1024x600
But that only sets the resolution, it doesn't fix the bottom section of the
windows being cutoff. Kind of pointless, too, when the resolution is already
set to that.
I think the issue has to deal with the fact that the max resolution of my
netbook is 1024x600. I also think that it is because 1024x600 isn't a common
resolution on a 15-inch laptop monitor or for a desktop. The only other two
resolutions I am able to set my netbook at are 800x600, and 640x480, which
are rather ugly and hard on the eyes.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Sat, 5/1/10, Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Dead Hard Drives Still Have a Purpose
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 1:58 PM
Here's a neat video I just found on Youtube about people with too much time
on their hands and some dead hard drives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqv1GS7ShH8
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqv1GS7ShH8&feature=channel>
&feature=channel
It's pretty cool, though.
Also, I've finally decided to move away from Windows and use it only when
necessary, since I've been having trouble with Windows 7 on my tower. Took
long enough, but I suppose you could say I'm now a Linux convert. I'm using
Back Track 4, which is built on Ubuntu 8.10.
With a little help from Chuq, last night I wrote my first two scripts. The
first was to change the MAC address of the wifi card in my netbook, the
second was to change the class of my Bluetooth dongle. Initially, the
Bluetooth dongle shows up as miscellaneous for class, the script was to
change it to a "cell phone" for easier association.
I'm determined to learn more about Linux and the commands, I've printed off
a few cheat sheets of commands, so I'm hoping I become adept at Linux.
Chuq also found a netbook version of Ubuntu. It looks pretty sharp. Speaking
of netbooks, I'm having a bit of a problem where the size of some windows
are larger than my desktop (Acer Aspire 1 netbook, mx resolution of 1024 x
600). Resizing the windows will not display any of the buttons along the
bottom. I can bring in the horizontal of the windows, but not the vertical.
I've tried clicking on the title bar, going to Advanced, then Special
Windows Settings, and forcing the size of the window to say 700, 550. The
problem with this is that it then doesn't make the window scrollable or
provide the buttons at the bottom. Any ideas on how to fix it? It's already
been posted on the Back Tack 4 forums, and last I checked, there was
currently no solution. Alt-clicking and dragging on the title bar doesn't
help either.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
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