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Can one disable tap-to-click in X server configuration, without synclient?
I want to configure my system so that tap-to-click is disabled on the touchpad. (It's running a rather old version of ALTLinux distro with xorg-server-1.4.2-alt10.M41.1.)
The most popular advice I ...
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How to configure FOSS ATI drivers on Debian Wheezy and ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4250]?
Installed a fresh Debian Wheezy to enjoy Gnome 3 but it starts in fallback mode. I suppose that's because the loaded drivers do not support 3D acceleration.
Installed packages I know are relevant:
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Unicode characters in uxterm and dwm statusbar
This is a realm I've never really meddled in before. So I apologize if I'm missing something completely obvious.
I would like to display chinese characters in dwm's status bar, more specifically I ...
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not able to create xorg.conf file
I want to change my colour depth. I posted this, and got the following answer:
Create an xorg.conf file by running Xorg -configure. Then edit the Depth entry in the Display subsection of the ...
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change colour depth
How do I change the colour depth? It says online to edit the xorg.conf file, but I don't have that. I am running Debian XFCE on a Powerbook G4
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Configuring mouse for right+left button simulating middle click (for copy/paste)
I was using the mouse copy-paste extensively, until recently, when some OpenSuSe upgrade reconfigured this on all my machines. Now the scrollbuton is the one to paste (which I hate, since it's hard to ...
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How to make startx use alternate xinitrc?
I don't have a desktop manager installed (and I don't want to). After logging in through the terminal I use startx to start the GUI. I have entries in ~/.xinitrc for my GUI sessions. Right now I have ...
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How to retrieve monitors configuration from the command line?
I am making a script that needs to access the computer's monitor(s) configuration. How can I do that? Is there a command or a file I could read where I can access this information?
At the moment, I ...
