Just made the switch to Jaunty

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 11 Oct 2009 20:18:45 Paul Rumelhart wrote:

> 
> 3) When I boot up, my login screen is at 1920x1200, which for my card 
> means that I have to pan around in a 1680x1050 window.  I have gone into 
> the system settings and set the display to be 1680x1050, but it shows 
> that in a pan-able 1920x1200 window - which is not what I want.  How do 
> I get the initial login screen to start at 1680x1050, or at least have 
> KDE switch to 1680x1050 when it comes up?  I can go into Desktop 
> settings after I've logged in and change the refresh rate and have it 
> set the resolution correctly (it already thinks it's at 1680x1050, so I 
> have to change something to get the update button to show up).
> 

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
        Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

The section will probably already exist, it's only the PreferredMode line you should need to add.

> 1) Is there a plasma widget that will show the amount of memory that is 
> being used?  I found one for CPU and network activity, but haven't seen 
> a memory one.

plasma-widget-memusage
or possibly
plasma-widgets-addons might contain one. 

I have one on my system but I have all the backports, testing, and ppa repos enabled. I do not have the memusage widget installed so the one I have can't be that one.

Mark