Other Help Topics :: Apps filling the screen

Dumb newbie questions...

1.) How can I stop Dillo from opening every time I start X ?

2.) Due to reasons beyond my control (?) I am forced to put up with an old monitor that only supports 640x480, for the time being. Some apps, such as the file manager & Dillo, open so large, that the windows buttons ( _ [] X) are off the screen. Dillo isn't so bad, as there is the edge of the window visible & I can move it to see the buttons, but with some apps, there are no edges visible at all. How can I open these apps in a smaller window ?

1.
add a # infront of:
dillo -f /usr/share/doc/damnsmall/getting_started.html &>/dev/null &
in the file /home/dsl/.xinitrc

2.
some applications remember there size, some application require big screens.

3.
edit filetool.lst to keep the setting of your applicationx, dont forget to use backup/restore.
how to use has been explained more then once on this forum, use the seach button on top of this page

How do I get rid of too many copies of mount app, etc.? X-kill doesn't work.

Open an xterm and type in:

ps -eux | more

To see the exact spelling of the program that you wish to kill. For example, "wmix" will appear for the mixer/volume dockapp.

Then to kill them you can type:

kill -9 pidnum

Where pidnum is the pid number of the process from the previous step.

Or you can just type:

killall wmix

and it will killl all processes that are names wmix.

Hope this helps.

Yes, it works. Thank you.

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