[Novalug] graphical issues

[Don E. Groves, Jr.]

A simple way to find out what "xrandr" is the "whatis" command:
  whatis xrandr
       xrandr(1) - primitive command line interface to RandR extension

And "man xrandr" will give you even more details. <GRIN>

And a little reading tells (me at least) that both of the following are the
same:
    xrandr
    xrandr -q     # 'q' for Query ONLY

The "man" says:
       -q     When  this  option  is present, or when no configuration
changes
              are requested, xrandr will display the current state of the
system.

IOW all that command by itself is suppose to do is to ask the system to
report it's current state. If it's doing any more then that then you've
found a "BUG".

Now watch out as "xrandr" can do a whole lot more then just QUERY as in:
   xrandr --rotate left
      which would rotate the whole screen 90 degrees to the left  or
counter-clockwise.

The command:
    metacity --replace
tells "metacity" to replace whatever window manager which  is currently
running  with itself.
What that really means depends on the state of things when the command is
ran.

Note to Julia Christianson:
  'metacity' is GNOME's default window manager,
  the same as KWin is KDE's default window manager.

So for a KDE user issuing the command "metacity --replace" would NOT be a
good idea.


-- DonJr

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Beartooth <karhunhammas at lserv.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Julia Christianson wrote:
>
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> >
>
>        That sounds like the problems I used to have with Gnome every time
> I installed a new release of Fedora, till I learned to take each machine out
> from behind the KVM switch, and let it have the peripherals all to itself
> for the duration of the install. I sometimes get them still when I reboot
> after a session with XP on the other hard drive, back into Fedora. What
> works then is to command "xrandr" then log out and back in. I have no idea
> what xrandr is or does, but it might be a quick fix.
>
>        Before that was enough, sometimes it helped to command "metacity
> --replace" and sometimes also log out and back in.
>
> --
> Beartooth Gerontoflatulocrat,
> Cantankerous Codger
> I have hunted, and I have lived.


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Don E. Groves, Jr


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