Xconfigurator (Re: display size in Ubuntu)

June Tate wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:59 -0700, Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
>
>>Have you tried booting to the comand line and running Xconfigurator yet?
>
>
> Ubuntu is based upon the Debian Linux distribution, and doesn't have
> Xconfigurator installed (that's a RedHat-related thing). Instead, the
> correct thing to do is to go to a console (Control-Shift-F1), login, and
> then issue the command:
>
> foo:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>
> This should walk you through setting up the X server.
>
> HTH
>
>
>
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I'd like to clear up a few things regarding X, in my mind at least.

Xconfigurator is not only RedHat specific, it's been depreciated. Here's
a quote from a recent (1/27/05) linuxforums.org post:

"Fedora switched X windows implementations from XFree86 to the Xorg in
Core 2. The new name for the configuration file is now xorg.conf and is
in the same location: /etc/X11.

"As far as auto configuration is concerned you can run 'Xorg -configure'
as root. It will try a hardware probe and should be able to get an base
xorg.conf file for you. No guarantees though as the man page says, 'This
option currently has some problems on some platforms'. However, I think
it's the closest substitute for Xconfigurator or redhat-config-xfree86."

I think it's important to realize that there's a difference between
XFree86 and Xorg - they're two different implementations of the X Window
System. Xorg is a fork off of XFree86. The primary difference at this
point is in filenames and locations, but the two will likely diverge
even more in the future.

BL, this isn't just a variation between distros.
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