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Dual screen
I had the idea of getting my old 19″-screen back onto my table – in addition to my 22″-widescreen, of course! However, this meant to recompile 350 packages with xinerama-support – sometimes, Windows indeed IS easier than Gentoo…. In order to set up both screens on Linux, I followed the HOWTO Dual Monitors in the [...]
VNC on the Server
After reading through some materials, I decided not to go for simple X forward with SSH – instead, I will set up a VNC server so that I can use X on the server as well. I read through the VNC overview document on Gentoo Wiki, and decided to go for tightvnc; emerging it pulled [...]
Firefox and the Scroll Mouse
I fixed an annoying behaviour in Firefox: When I scrolled fast with the scroll wheel on my mouse, Firefox would go back and forth (depending on the scroll direction) in my browser history. I found some resource that described the solution: I had to change the ZAxisMapping in xorg.conf. I did as suggested – the [...]
Beautify and finalise
Another day to play around on the new client… Today, I was up to a) beautify KDE and b) finalising some stuff, i. e. make sure I have all the programs I use for daily work. In terms of beautify, I emerged whatever I found in the x11-themes section that related to either icons, KDE [...]
Get X!
We are now ready to emerge the X server. There is a handbook doc and a wiki entry. First thing to do is to emerge the corresponding meta-package (xorg-x11) – this gives a list of 115 packages to emerge… After the emerge, the nvidia module is compiled. We add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d and reboot for [...]
