Recent content by Dave H

Hello All, I am very new to Linux. Been using LinuxCNC for a bit, but as far as the rest of the OS is concerned I know virtually nothing. Here's what happened: I tried to improve my display settings and I now have a blank screen, with the "No Signal" error coming up. When I went to change the...

Well, I gave it a try. Didn't work, but didn't mess anything up either. Said "no such directory or file found." Maybe that was a good thing. Will check out your earlier post.

@wixardfromoz, Thanks for the response,and, I think, the compliments! I am humbled... I am using Wheezy only because it and LinuxCNC are bundled in the iso file produced by the LinuxCNC community for easy install of LinuxCNC for Linux know nothings like myself. It's the easy way. LinuxCNC will...

So, I set up a second user profile on this machine. Everything works fine. No problem with losing the desktop after login as with my original user. It would seem to me that it has something to do with the original user profile settings?? The original user is root. The second is not, and I could...

Is there a boot file I can edit to add "startxfce4" to? Or something similar?

I get: compiz is not installed

Ok, thank you. So I think I am there. I see: root@dave:~#

How is that done?

I am a Linux newb, so please forgive me. I am running Debian Wheezy with LinuxCNC. I installed a new monitor and was trying to optimize the graphic settings. I accidentally clicked a check box that said something like "Use these settings" while setting resolution and refresh rate in Xfce. That...