gentoo go good

[Joshua Bergland]

gdm and kdm are the gnome and kde login managers ... they are usually 
ran as root ... run 'rc-update add xdm default' if you want X at startup

in either case, you will need to edit the '/etc/rc.conf' file to set a 
default xsession variable as the file documents, or set it per user in 
the .bash_profile file to set which environment the startx command 
starts up when you run it... this is also where you set which login 
manger to use.

as far as the resolution issue goes... check the /etc/X11/XF86Config and 
find the Screen section ... look for a section like:

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1600x1200/75Hz" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" 
"640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
                Virtual 0 0
    EndSubsection

make sure the default resolution is the first one listed on that line 
... also note the DefaultDepth option in that section

hope this helps... Gentoo is wonderful :-)

Josh

Eric Rossiter wrote:

>Hey everyone,
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>Gentoo is slick, man... been slowly getting acclimated and I have a few
>questions, if I may.
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>As a normal user, I can't start gdm or kdm, tells me only root wants to
>do that.  I tried the fix suggested in the gentoo forums to no avail.
>Any other ideas?
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>Will I not be able to type "startx" or is there a hack that's necessary?
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>When X fires up, it's way huge, but a few ctrl + alt + + or - puts
>things where I want them.  How can I fix that, i.e. set a default
>resolution?  I haven't searched for this one at all, so if you want to
>point to a URL as opposed to spoon'n, I'm all eyes.
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>There's a couple more but they pertain to messages I see at boot and I
>haven't copied them down yet.
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>I'm getting swamped with spam.  I don't have my own mail server.  Is
>there anything I can set up here at home to filter mail if I don't have
>a mail server?  (collect from discoverynet.com and send thru
>comcast.net) I was thinking of setting up postfix to grab my mail from
>discoverynet.com and filter it using spamassassin or some such... but
>the more I read about postfix, sendmail, etc... you have to have a
>fully-qualified domain name... 
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>So far I've emerged KDE and Gnome... I like KDE better... Evolution,
>Mozilla, vtund, lzo, (tunnel go good, over ssh, compressed btw...) gaim
>and probably a few others I've forgotten.  What other wonder apps/tools
>should I grab/does anyone recommend?
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>Thanks for your time.
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