Daravon |
09-04-2008 11:54 PM |
Console window very small in basic Xorg install--does not fill screen
I'm building a digital picture frame.
I did a commandline install of Ubuntu on an old laptop and then got xorg over apt. When I startx (I have no window manager, and no mouse), most of the screen is grey, with the active window taking up the top-left quarter of the screen. I'm sure I need to specify the resolution in the xorg.conf but i'm not sure how. This isn't a great problem, just annoying to waste the screen.
I'm also having trouble getting rid of the mouse cursor, which sits in the middle of the screen because i have no mouse...I tried the method of blank bitmap here, doing it in tty1 while X was running on tty7 but i get
Code:
chaz@frame: xsetroot -cursor blankbmp blankbmp
xsetroot: unable to open window ''
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I thought maybe it was from entering the command on a different tty than the one that was running X but when I put the command in my Xsession, right next to other commands that work, X fails to launch.
Maybe to fix both problems I should go with a window manager? I don't want to give up much disk space.
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