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Stormblazer Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 76 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:15 am Post subject: Font and mouse issues |
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I've been rebuilding my gentoo setup (I broke my old one, and I needed to repartition anyways), but I made a mistake in the backup and lost some of my config files, although I still have everything that was in /etc
Anyways to get to the point- First off, fonts. I'm using Gnome 2.14, but the fonts seem off, sometimes letters are a bit too thick in places, and I've tried fiddling with the font preferences in Gnome, but no luck.
Second is the mouse- neither the scroll-wheel nor the side buttons work, and I know I used imwheel in the past, but I can't find my configuration for it, nor can I remember the program I used before to set imwheel up (It was some program that detected the id of mouse clicks, run from terminal).
So if anyone has a possible solution for either of those, I'd love to have an answer. |
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ASID Apprentice
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 195
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Try and follow the instructions there. This will modify your xorg.conf file under /etc/X11/. This file contains information about your fonts and your mouse. Try adding
Code: | Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5" |
in the mouse section of the file, so you can be able to use scroll.
Also if you have any fonts tha you want to use, you can place the path to them in the file aswell, ie:
Code: | FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/" |
Good luck |
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Stormblazer Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 76 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Well, the mouse thing worked, I'd previously had it set to 7 buttons and mapped to 6 and 7, but evidently either that doesn't work correctly with imwheel anymore, or i've got something else set-up wrong (could also be modular X). Anyways, at least scrolling is working, it was very annoying not having scroll, so thanks for that bit.
I didn't use xorgconfig because I've already got a config file I migrated from my old installation, and it appears to be working (more or less) smoothly with modular X. Also, I really don't want to redo that config file, it's got a number of customized options in it that the xorgconfig script won't add.
I placed some fonts (ttf format) in that directory, but no luck accessing them through gnome.
Also, I seem to be having issues with openGL, which is odd seeing as i've never had trouble with nvidia drivers before... |
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ASID Apprentice
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 195
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Well, the mouse thing worked |
Great!
On the font problem, did you try to change your font display from the gnome manager? Take a look at this howto that I find very usefull http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html.
I hope that helps... |
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