Apps filling the screen

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Apps filling the screen
started by: alloydog

Posted by alloydog on Sep. 22 2004,07:31

Dumb newbie questions...

1.) How can I stop Dillo from opening every time I start X ?

2.) Due to reasons beyond my control (?) I am forced to put up with an old monitor that only supports 640x480, for the time being. Some apps, such as the file manager & Dillo, open so large, that the windows buttons ( _ [] X) are off the screen. Dillo isn't so bad, as there is the edge of the window visible & I can move it to see the buttons, but with some apps, there are no edges visible at all. How can I open these apps in a smaller window ?

Posted by henk1955 on Sep. 22 2004,07:49

1.
add a # infront of:
dillo -f /usr/share/doc/damnsmall/getting_started.html &>/dev/null &
in the file /home/dsl/.xinitrc

2.
some applications remember there size, some application require big screens.

3.
edit filetool.lst to keep the setting of your applicationx, dont forget to use backup/restore.
how to use has been explained more then once on this forum, use the seach button on top of this page

Posted by plastic on Sep. 26 2004,18:38

How do I get rid of too many copies of mount app, etc.? X-kill doesn't work.

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 26 2004,18:49

Open an xterm and type in:

ps -eux | more

To see the exact spelling of the program that you wish to kill. For example, "wmix" will appear for the mixer/volume dockapp.

Then to kill them you can type:

kill -9 pidnum

Where pidnum is the pid number of the process from the previous step.

Or you can just type:

killall wmix

and it will killl all processes that are names wmix.

Hope this helps.

Posted by plastic on Sep. 26 2004,20:35

Yes, it works. Thank you.

Posted by alloydog on Sep. 29 2004,18:21

Thanks Henk, I'll give it a bash as soon as DSL is re-installed...

cheers.