On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:26:41PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: firewalls and installation stuff.... > >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:43:05 -0700 > > > >On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> > >> And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly > >[...] > > > >> http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > >> > > > >I hope that didn't come across as harsh as it now looks to me. > > > >A > > It's OK. In the case of the reconfiguring of Xwindows I thought you > couild do that from the configuration editor in Gnome now I have > installed it so I thought I was asking a slightly different question > than before. I now realise I would just use the same command you > recommended before. there is a seperation between Gnome and X. Its all about layers (onions have layers!). Gnome is sort of the icing on the cake that is X sitting on the plate that is linux. That is not to say that Gnome couldn't incorporate a configuration mechanism that would allow reconfiguration of X because it certainly could. > > I found the specs for my monitor on Google. I will go away and think of > some more interesting questions to post on the site. please don't go away, and realise that its not whether questions are "interesting" or not, but whether they are either well researched, informed questions or stabs in the dark. I am certainly one to make too many stabs in the dark and would hope to help others to help themselves somewhat. I'm glad you found your monitor specs, that will make life much easier... anyway, I apologise for coming off wrong there. A
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