From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 04:29:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25090 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25086 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA21460; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 06:29:21 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) id GAA17476; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 06:29:16 -0600 (CST) To: Prashanth Mylvarabatla Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fvwmrc References: From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 17 Jan 1998 06:29:14 -0600 In-Reply-To: Prashanth Mylvarabatla's message of "Sat, 17 Jan 1998 03:44:57 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: <874t33mgh1.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Prashanth Mylvarabatla writes: > I recently installed freebsd and I have the fvwm windows manager. > The display is not accurate(say the xterm dosent appear to be in a > perfect rectangular shape, same case if I open any editor),I dont > know where to configure this ?? > > 1. Do I have have to specify my monitor type in .fvwmrc ? > > Pls help me with this Sounds like your X Server is not configured properly, or else you monitor is set up wrong. Have you tried some different settings for your X Server and have you tried the various dials on your monitor?? (Perhaps I just don't understand the problem...) -- Steve Farrell