Choosing fonts and sizes

2013-10-29 Thread Steven Feil
I am having a difficulty, after reinstalling my Gentoo/Linux/Gnu system. I can no longer get XEmacs to use a font small enough to show 110 columns on the monitor I have. For me, this feature is a must. I still have a working old system, where the font is the right size and a new system where the

Re: Choosing fonts and sizes

2013-11-03 Thread Steven Feil
Thanks Felix Miata for answering the follow up question that just started writing before I posted it. Thanks also to Glynn Clements your were correct. I have one monitor that I use with a KVM switch. I was messing around and found out that My KVM switch causes "VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed".

vesa driver screen dimming problem

2013-11-07 Thread Steven Feil
>From time to time, I find myself having to use the xf86-video-vesa driver when my xf86-video-r128 driver fails after an upgrade (I'll make a separate post about that). When I use the vesa driver, I have a problem with my X11 screen going into what I call dim-mode, where the graphic screen is very

Problems exporting windows

2013-11-17 Thread Steven Feil
I am having difficulty exporting windows between computers. I would like to find a "how-to" like documentation so I can figure out what is blocking windows from one computer from displaying on the other. The main difficulty I am having in solving my problem is that I can not find a Google-able er

Problems exporting windows

2013-11-18 Thread Steven Feil
Dnia niedziela, 17 listopada 2013 23:03:41 Lukasz Masko pisze: > This is not a direct solution of your problem, but have you tried to > use the X forwarding feature of ssh protocol? After your response, I tried "ssh -X joeblow@merganser" and "ssh -X joeblow@merganser" both of there gave me error

resetting server without loosing clients?

2014-02-21 Thread Steven Feil
Is there a way to reset/restart the Xorg server without killing the programs that are clients of the server? I have an "Amish" laptop that I mess around with that has a Neomagic NM2160 video chip. The only diver that works is the vesa driver. Somewhere, there is a sort of bug that makes the scree