What is the name of the program that replaces Xconfigurator and XF86Setup for resetting video display values for X post-install? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 at 5:18pm, James B. Byrne wrote> What is the name of the program that replaces Xconfigurator and > XF86Setup for resetting video display values for X post-install?system-config-display -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
redhat-config-xfree86 P. James B. Byrne wrote:>What is the name of the program that replaces Xconfigurator and >XF86Setup for resetting video display values for X post-install? > >Regards, >Jim > >-- > *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** >mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca >James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited >vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive >fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario ><token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3 > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:18 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:> What is the name of the program that replaces Xconfigurator and > XF86Setup for resetting video display values for X post-install? >---- CentOS 4 On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 17:19 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 at 5:18pm, James B. Byrne wrote > > > What is the name of the program that replaces Xconfigurator and > > XF86Setup for resetting video display values for X post-install? > > system-config-displayCentOS 3 On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:33 +0000, Peter Farrow wrote:> redhat-config-xfree86 >They are of course both right - you didn't qualify the question. They didn't qualify the answer. but I would add... pass the '--reconfig' option if necessary Craig
Many thanks for the help. The effects of my mis-guided efforts to increase the screen resolution past what the hardware would bear have been corrected. I now have a supplementary question. There does not seem to be a man page or an info entry foe system-config-display and I cannot find a reference to it via apropos. How does one inform oneself about this utility or what am I doing wrong in my search for documentation? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:36:26 -0600, Johnny Hughes <mailing- lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:> All the relevant documentation that is distributable from the > upstream provider is available here: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/Thanks for the link. My original question had more to do with how one discovers the appropriate name for the command in question. Once one has that information it is usually a trivial exercise to track down the documentation and discover how to use the tool. However, there does not seem to be any internal reference to system- config-display in any of the X related man pages. Is this upstream decision purposeful or inadvertent? In any case, while web based documentation is wonderful, there are still frequent occasions when system resident documentation is all one has access to. The absence of documentation for setup and configuration applications can prove most inconvenient in those circumstances. Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3