On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:44:43PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> If you have Gnome installed, you can have the Desk Guide applet; and then
> you could grab one of the window thumbnails there using the middle button
> (both if your mouse emulates), and move it.
>
At a low resolution that wastes valuable
> I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why
> should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same
> resolution? (Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the
> issue of MS Windows crashing left and right.)
everything in X is big. run for an hour or 2 i
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:11:29PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote:
>
> I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they
> are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as
> irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes
> off the screen
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:51:14AM -0500, Aaron Traas wrote:
> Windows apps, particularly older ones, were designed to be usable at
> 640x480. I believe X started on Solaris, or at least first caught on
> there, and I believe the default then was 1152x864, because at 8BPP, it
> fit in 1 MB of video
Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> nate wrote:
>
> > in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is
> > unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768.
> > 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual
> > desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see
> > the
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:45:59AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why
> should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same resolution?
> (Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the issue of MS
> Windows crashing left
>I seem to run into a problem where the OS installs fine and all the
>programs work but the GUI is very large.
>
>I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they
>are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as
>irc or any other type app, the applicatio
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Matt Chipman wrote:
> I use Debian for all my servers and have only recently decided to
> give it (Debian) a go for my desktop machines as well.
Consider to install Gnome too.
> irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes
> off the screen so much s
nate wrote:
> in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is
> unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768.
> 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual
> desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see
> the X docs on how to do this, its not too
> I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load,
> they are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a
in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is
unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768.
800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a
I use Debian for all my servers and have only recently decided to
give it (Debian) a go for my desktop machines as well.
I seem to run into a problem where the OS installs fine and all the
programs work but the GUI is very large.
I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, t
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