Monday 23 March 2009

xorg.conf for Widescreen SD TV on TV-Out (s-video)

See DisplaySize setting http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Display_Size

e.g.

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "TV"
HorizSync 30.0 - 50.0
VertRefresh 50.0
DisplaySize 320 180
EndSection

Monday 2 March 2009

openbox Desktop context menu

Need to disable Nautilus Desktop context menu

Disable it with the gconf-editor program. Run gconf-editor and browse to "/apps/nautilus/preferences" and turn off the show desktop option. Another simpler way to get that is to call nautilus with the --no-desktop switch.

http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:GNOME/Openbox

Switch Gnome Window Manager

Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor

/desktop/gnome/session/required_components -> windowmanager