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Entries for March, 2009

Gnome: changing different screen resolution for different user

It can be frustrating if you cannot control your screen resolution. As in, the screen resolution is dictated by the administrator. Well, this is not the case. For gnome, edit the file in
~/gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/%gconf.xml
restart Xserver after that.

Configuring VNC Server For Multiple Users

* VNC Server allows sysadmin to administer the server in GUI environment provided the server is able to boot up in run level 5. We are setting up 2 users for vnc access in this instance.
* If not already done, install vnc server.
yum install vnc-server
* In /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
VNCSERVERS=”1:user1 2:user2″
VNCSERVERARGS[2]=”-geometry 1280×1024″
VNCSERVERARGS[3]=”-geometry 1280×1024″
* Manually switch between users and [...]

firefox web search not working? The fix is simple.

If you a are linux user, you are probably affected by this.
after upgrading to the latest version of firefox, you might find that if you login as a user, you can’t use the web search toolbar. This is annoying because the search facility is actually very handy.
Initially, I thought it was because of selinux… [...]

PHP Quick Calendar V2.5 Updates

* Fixed minor bug relating to event date not displaying in order.