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LSA
03-15-2004, 02:16 AM
I just changed my default runlevel to 3, set up .xinitrc and a nice framebuffer console, then I startx and just about every app has big and really bold fonts.

:huh:

I would search google but I don't know where to start with this :unsure:

h1
03-15-2004, 05:03 AM
Don't know, but what did you do to get your post censored?

Rip The Jacker
03-15-2004, 09:06 AM
Censored?
Always thinking of me as the bad guy haxor... :P

LSA misspelled the title of the topic. So in his post, he wrote "I misspelled the title" (or something similar), so I fixed the title, and edited out the "I misspelled the title" part of the post.

Always trying to make us mods look bad! :angry: :P :P :D

h1
03-15-2004, 10:30 PM
:lol: Lies! :P He could have edited it himself! :D

LSA
03-15-2004, 10:37 PM
Originally posted by haxor41789@15 March 2004 - 16:30
:lol: Lies! :P He could have edited it himself! :D
You can't edit the title though, thanks Rip The Jacker.

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I was thinking that it might of been because XFS wasn't on, so I checked and it is on. Then just a few seconds ago I lost my X connection, it said "kppp lost its connection to 0,0, either it died or you killed it" or something similar to that.

Should I go back to runlevel 5? The only reason i'm in 3 is because I don't like GDM, it's a pointless extra process, what does it even do?

shn
03-16-2004, 01:48 AM
Originally posted by LSA@15 March 2004 - 16:37

I don't like GDM, it's a pointless extra process, what does it even do?


*sighs* (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=what+is+GNOME)

LSA
03-16-2004, 02:43 AM
GDM the login manager...not gnome

This: http://images.google.com/images?q=gdm&hl=e...start=0&start=0 (http://images.google.com/images?q=gdm&hl=en&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0)

I just don't see what it's good for...




GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).

I don't need any of that stuff so I don't want it running

shn
03-16-2004, 02:55 AM
Originally posted by LSA@15 March 2004 - 20:43
GDM the login manager...not gnome

This: http://images.google.com/images?q=gdm&hl=e...start=0&start=0 (http://images.google.com/images?q=gdm&hl=en&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0)

I just don't see what it's good for...




GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).

I don't need any of that stuff so I don't want it running
You just don't get it do you?

"Gnome Display Manager." WIthout it running you can not have an xsession, thus, no GNOME.

Try logging into a gdm and then kill the gdm process and see if you still find yourself in a graphical enviorment. It will "kill" your xsession and drop you back to a shell. ;)

And unless your running kdm (kde display manager) or xdm (xfree86 display manager) you will not be abale to run a gui unless you startx everytime from a shell. You boot into a gui according to your runlevel.

I do not. When I log in all I due is type startx. :)

LSA
03-16-2004, 03:02 AM
I know, thats what I want, i have it on runlevel 3 right now. I have been doing alot of console work so I haven't been in the gui alot. Yeah, the n00b in the console :o

shn
03-16-2004, 03:06 AM
Originally posted by LSA@15 March 2004 - 21:02
I know, thats what I want, i have it on runlevel 3 right now. I have been doing alot of console work so I haven't been in the gui alot. Yeah, the n00b in the console :o
If you are in a console then how is it you have Display Manager running? :)

LSA
03-16-2004, 03:08 AM
I don't have a display manager running, where did you get that from?

shn
03-16-2004, 03:13 AM
Originally posted by LSA@15 March 2004 - 21:08
I don't have a display manager running, where did you get that from?

Should I go back to runlevel 5? The only reason i'm in 3 is because I don't like GDM, it's a pointless extra process, what does it even do?

That is your post correct? :)

LSA
03-16-2004, 03:15 AM
I'm in runlevel 3. I don't have a display manager running.

shn
03-16-2004, 03:21 AM
Originally posted by LSA@15 March 2004 - 21:15
I'm in runlevel 3.  I don't have a display manager running.
According to your post you just entered runlevel 3 because of the GDM.

Without further debate of the fact.

Any "true" Linux user would know that it does not matter wether you have a console or not you can run any Display Manager and still have a text based console because Linux is a multitasking o.s.



If you are in a console then how is it you have Display Manager running?....................was a trick question bud. :)

LSA
03-16-2004, 03:26 AM
Your always out to get me with your trick questions :(

I'm going to sleep, your a meanie!

http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/tongue.gif

shn
03-16-2004, 03:33 AM
Originally posted by LSA@15 March 2004 - 21:26
Your always out to get me with your trick questions :(

I'm going to sleep, your a meanie!

http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/tongue.gif
If you say so.

Btw, since you like posting Links (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/usr/local/www/linux/gs/subsection2.7.7.3.html) :)

h1
03-16-2004, 05:22 AM
When people fight, it generally means they like one another. :ninja:

shn
03-16-2004, 05:51 AM
Originally posted by haxor41789@15 March 2004 - 23:22
When people fight, it generally means they like one another. :ninja:
http://filesharingtalk.com/style_images/1/icon8.gif :P

h1
03-16-2004, 05:57 AM
:ninja: /disappears off into the night...

LSA
03-16-2004, 11:24 PM
Anyway :rolleyes:

Does anyone know what the problem could be?

LSA
04-13-2004, 01:25 AM
:huh:

I just installed Slackware 9.1, and it still does this same thing, but only in 1280x1024.

XFree86 Version 4.3.0
GeForce 4 MX440

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I've been searching for this for a while and I can't find anything.

Example (Panel is in "Tiny")

http://server6.uploadit.org/files/LSA001-damnfonts.jpg