Forum: X Window

import -window root filename.extension where .extension == the graphics format to be used; any of the graphics formats supported in the imagemagick suite will work.. i.e. bmp, gif, png, etc. ...

TrueType Font Installation under XFree86 can sometimes seem a bit daunting. I have found the mkfontalias.py script by Roman Sulzhyk to be invaluble. However, I quickly got tired of typing in the...

I searched Google for this, and I never saw anything that gave a step-by-step instruction on setting up a wheel mouse to work in X under FreeBSD. So, hopefully this will be useful to someone else! ...

NOTE: This worked on the Sid (unstable branch) of Debian. I am not sure if it will work on woody or sarge. Credit goes to whiprush and evane on arstechnica who spent the time to help me get through...

To get your Wheel Mouse to work with all the buttons, including the back forward buttons on the left side of the mouse: For Xfree (/etc/X11/XF86Config)Section "InputDevice" Identifier ...

If you like to have the Adobe Acrobat plugin for your browser or you don't like gpdf but you HATE the ugly font/look you get with Adobe Acrobat Reader, this will help you. First of all, if you...

Props to WattsMD and Dual Monitor HOWTO for helping me get this going. Recently, a friend in my local LUG gave me about 7 monitors, just to get them out of his place. Ever since then, running dual...