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367747 2005-06-29 06:46:00 tell me bout it, id much rather use a gui, but i cant get root for it, just for terminal.A quick way of getting root with a GUI is to launch nautilus as root. Nautilus in Gnome is the equivalent of Windows Explorer, and Gnome is the desktop environment that Ubuntu uses. To get nautilus as root, just open up a terminal window and su - (su <space> - [hyphen]) to root and then enter in nautilus <push enter>. The window that opens will have full root powers so you can just navigate to / and then to whatever directory you need to go to. When you find the file you wish to edit, if you right-click on it there should be an option to open with a text editor (or there may even be that option in the left-hand panel if you just click on the file first). Just be aware that as root you can completely hose your system without any "are you sure" messages, so don't go making changes if you are not aware what the consequences of them will be. :)

Is your monitor correctly detected by Ubuntu and has the correct frequency settings/refresh rate? 		Jen (38)
367748 2005-06-29 07:44:00 when i tried to run nautilus as you instructed, it came up with an error

(nautilus:7648): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

what does it mean?


abuot my display, in windows id run it at 1280x1024x32 @60hz
but it ubunto, currently, all the options it is listing are; 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, 832x624. at various frequencies for each resolution.

would a driver update help fix this?
if so, how?

also how do i install stuff? 		Mirddes (10)
367749 2005-06-29 10:23:00 Bump Mirddes (10)
367750 2005-06-29 10:55:00 Just done a bit of reading on Ubuntu. It doesn't use root like most other distro's, but has set it up with sudo to gain admin powers. Basically you type sudo instead of su - followed by the command on the same line and then enter in your password (not roots). Example: sudo gedit. This *may* be behind your errors when you lauched something as root. Just out of interest, try sudo gedit.

I've found a what looks like an extensive userguide for Ubuntu that you may wish to check out - Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide (http://www.ubuntuguide.org/). It should answer your question about installing new software and video drivers.

Regarding your screen resolution, browse to this location and paste the information from these parts from the Section to the EndSection here:

location: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Sections:
Section "Monitor"
Section "Device"
Section "Screen"

This is what you are looking for as an example:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection 		Jen (38)
367751 2005-06-30 02:04:00 Before changing the X Window settings, try the higher resolution. Crtl/Alt/+ (the "+" on the keypad) will change the resolution. Ctrl/Alt/- reduces the resolution. If you accidentally get too high a resolution for the monitopr and want to bail out before things explode, Ctrl/Alt/Backspace is an emergency exit for X Window. Graham L (2)
367752 2005-06-30 03:50:00 xorgconfig should auto-generate you a new and more useful setup. Try that:
sudo xorgconfig


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
367753 2005-07-01 01:10:00 Just out of interest, try sudo gedit.


mirddes@home:~$ sudo gedit
mirddes is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.


this is bad?


also ive noticed i cant see hda1 and hdb1 (my windows partitions)
i kinda really need them, music ect...
they were all visible when i was running the knoppix live CD (3.9) but i dunno if i could see them while runnign the ubuntu 5.04 live CD 		Mirddes (10)
367754 2005-07-01 04:46:00 No, it just means that the sudo'ers file hasnt been setup right.

you could try this (no where near sudo though)


su -
export DISPLAY=":0"
gedit <file>

And if your computer is running only one Xsession, that should work. 		ILikeLinux (1669)
367755 2005-07-01 06:57:00 su -
export DISPLAY=":0"
gedit <file>

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


(gedit:9937): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:



how do i get it so the default screen resolution is 1280x1024? everytime i log on it reverts to the orignal 1024x768. even if i check the box "Make defaulf for this computer (Home) only"

thanks again.
(my questions have moved past my orignal bootloader questions, but i think its best to keep my linux questions in one place, for my convenance) 		Mirddes (10)
367756 2005-07-01 08:59:00 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


(gedit:9937): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:



how do i get it so the default screen resolution is 1280x1024? everytime i log on it reverts to the orignal 1024x768. even if i check the box "Make defaulf for this computer (Home) only"

thanks again.
(my questions have moved past my orignal bootloader questions, but i think its best to keep my linux questions in one place, for my convenance)

Could you please do "print $DISPLAY" and post back, then I can correct the command for you.

Btw: what winodow manager are you using? 		ILikeLinux (1669)
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