RoGuE_StreaK
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Posted: June 20 2005,00:18 |
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Not sure what you are asking with the 1st Q, could just experiment with different options at boot to see what the monitor is capable of - 640x480 or 800x600, 8bit (256colour), 16bit (64K colours), 24bit (lots...). I probably doubt you'd get 1024x768 or 32bit colour working. 16bit is usually more than useable, 8bits still reasonable.
2. What do you mean by "components"? You can easily access files on windows drives, just mount the drive first (use the little app with pics of drives in the slit), then you can access them in emelfm by going to /mnt/whatever_the_drive_is (hda1 is usually your windows drive).
Unless you have your drive formatted as NTFS, in which case you can't write to it natively with DSL. But that's doubtful if the screen is only 640x480...
If you mean "components" as in "applications", then you can't just run windows stuff under linux, you either need to find a linux version of it or use something like WINE to add a "windows compatability layer" (or something like that). But WINE's a bit tricky with DSL I think...
To set a jpg as your background, in an XTerm, type
bsetbg -f /home/dsl/bg.jpg
or whatever path and filename you have for your background.
I think "-f" sets fullscreen, don't know the various commands for centering, tiling, etc., probably typing "bsetbg --help" or "bsetbg --h" may bring up the various options.
Alternatively, if you get the Whitebox extension, I think you can just point to the file you want, set the options, and it does it for you.
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