Saturday, November 19, 2005

TV-out - NVIDIA


# sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "video card"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# binary 'nvidia' driver must be used
Driver "nvidia"
# force display(s) detection; useful for KVMs
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
# TV-out mandatory settings
Option "TwinView"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
# MetaModes: "CRT,TV @virtual; CRT,TV; ..."
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1024x768 @1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 640x480,NULL"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
# TV-out other/optional settings
#Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
#Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
#Option "TVOverScan" "1.0" # decimal range 0.0 to 1.0
EndSection

Friday, November 18, 2005

Icons - KDE


- get icons from kde-look.org

- put them in

* for a single user

~/.icons/new_icons_dir/

* for a global system setting

/usr/share/icons/new_icons_dir/

- select new icons

KDE Control Center: Appearance & Themes->Icons->Theme

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Mouse cursors


- get mouse cursors from kde-look.org

- put them in

* for a single user

~/.icons/new_cursors_dir/cursors

* for a global system setting

/usr/share/icons/new_cursors_dir/cursors

- select the new theme

KDE Control Center: Peripherals->Mouse->Mouse Theme

- sync X cursor (visible on X login screen, in Firefox, etc.) with KDE's

# cd ~/.icons
# mkdir default
# vi default/index.theme

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=new_theme