I'm just going to forget about adjusting the Feisty screen resolution. It's such a minimal tweak; I can live with it. Thanks again. Rachael <div>On 5/5/07, Rachael Agnew <<a href="mailto:rachael.agnew@gmail.com">rachael.agnew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thank you everyone who has responded to my plea for help with Feisty resolution! I use sudo, su got me nowhere, but I will try that again within root. I am the only user -- perhaps somewhere in the installation I didn't make that clear...??? (I apparently have no permission to use /etc/... either, when I try to get into it without being on the terminal screen.) Am I expected to personalize root somehow, with my username? I am root and I use the password when requested... what else does this os want? grrr I will go through everything (meaning all suggestions) one more time. and oh yeah, I started out checking the ubuntu lists for resolution of my resolution problem and that's when I turned to asking you all, because nothing was working. I appreciate all the help, anyhow. It's made me learn more about ubuntu, but I still have huge holes in my understanding. If anyone else has suggestions please feel welcome to contribute. I haven't given up yet. Also if anyone is able to meet me at the Linuxcaffe to fix this, if I still haven't straightened it out by Monday, let me know. I'll buy you caffe in exchange for your expertise. Ciao. Rachael <div> <div>On 5/4/07, Daniel Robitaille <<a href="mailto:robitaille@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> robitaille@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 5/4/07, Jack Bowling <<a href="mailto:jbinpg@shaw.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jbinpg@shaw.ca</a>> wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:49:25PM -0400, Alfred wrote: > > At the risk of coming across as some PAF (Pedantic Old Fart), the "su" > command actually started life as an abbreviation for "substitute user" > not "super user". But since most *nixes adopted the role of root as > Supreme Commander, its original meaning was subsumed. It still has all its original powers: you can "su" to whatever user is on your system as long as you know their passwords. As only a half-old-fart, I didn't the meaning of "su" came from "substitute". Thanks for this! I use su quite regularly to login into other accounts on the system: so something like "su - daniel" to login into the user account "daniel", if I know the password of that account. If you don't know that password of that account, and you have administrator privileges on that computer, you can get into a super-user prompt first ("sudo -i"), then do the "su - daniel" trick. Doing a su from within root will not ask you for a password for the accounts you are trying to access. -- Daniel Robitaille -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>