Re: Changing Startup Defaults

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

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Subject: [Personal] Re: [LinuxRedHatInstall] Re: Changing Startup Defaults

I am not sure whether screen resolution and font size are one and the same,
but can anyone tell me how to adjust screen resolution?  Mine is set very
high and as a consequence all screens are very detailed but very hard to
read.  Some text is so small as to be impossible to decipher.  I looked in
several configuration files, think fvwmrc and others, and did find a range
of parameters for the screen and VGA card I am using, but there must be some
way to select a default.  I looked through the Gnome setup and configuration
menus (control panel et al) and found all sorts of font and color selection
options but alas, no screen resolution options.

Also, am still bewildered with respect to activating the parallel port.  The
linux install procedure allowed selection of a printer (I didn't see an
option to test it) and I selected the first parallel port, but printing
services are not available.   Should I attempt to reinstall Linux?

Thanks,

Bill  billsmith jps net


----- Original Message -----
From: Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [LinuxRedHatInstall] Re: Changing Startup Defaults


> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 07:58:54PM -0600, Manuel Camacho wrote:
> | On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Telecom Tom wrote:
> | > Speaking of window managers and startup defaults, can someone tell me
> | > how to change the default font size? We're using Fvwm now.
> [...]
> | What is to be done, is to copy one of this files as
> | /home/whatever_your_login_is/.fvwmrc
>
> Or more succinctly
> ~/.fvwmrc
> in most shells.
>
> | and modify it for configuration.
>
> Indeed. And then another time when you're more practiced you can do
> what I do when I change window managers, and pop up the manual entry in
> one window and an editor open on the .fvwmrc in another, and walk every
> single config option in the manual, configuring as you like it. This is
> a handy way to learn what facilities a wm has; some you'll never know
> are there until you do this kind of thing.
>
> | Now, about fonts. Fvwm uses 4 different types of fonts, each of them
could be
> | configured independently from the others:
> |
> | *Font: font type associated to menus.
> | *WindowFont: as it name implies, the font used on window titles.
> | *IconFont: for the icon labels. If not present, Font is used.
> | *PagerFont: used for virtual consoles.
> |
> | Regarding the fonts for window contents, they depend on the specific
> | application. For instance,
> |
> | whatever_your_login_is$ xterm -geometry 80x25-20-30 -fn 7x13bold ...
> |
> | will open a xterm window where text appears on a midium size bold font.
>
> Also, you can have a read of
> http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/answers/xterm-fonts.txt
> where I yabber on a bit about setting xterm fonts; this generalises to
> other tools under X pretty easily.
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743        cs zip com au
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