Silly problem in FC5

[titun]

Silly problem in FC5,MP3 play back

I installed FC5 today. I have a rather silly problem to start with. Some softwares/windows are so large that they do not fit in the screen vertically, and its very difficult to see the OK/CANCEL/APPLY option buttons at the bottom of the window. For the records my monitor is 17" and set at 800 x 600 resolution. For example, installed Yum Extender and I can't see the lower parts of the software window. Also resizing only works on width, but not height. What to do ?


I see there are many queries coming regarding FC5 as well as Ubuntu 6.06. I was thinking if by making 2 separate sticky threads for all FC5/Ubuntu queries it will be a little structured/useful/helpful ?? Only my view.

 

[gary4gar]

me to faced the similar prob try alter size of screen the osd of monitor.see if it helps

 

[kalpik]

You have a 17" monitor then why only 800x600? Keep the resolution to minimum 1024x786.

 

[QwertyManiac]

Yeah 1024 for 17" is the best resolution

In case you dont find an option for that, install ATI or Nvidia drivers (if you have the card...)

 

[mehulved]

Try pressing ctrl alt '+' together. See if that helps temporarily. Besides I am not sure how to adjust permanantly in FC5. If you don't mind editing configuration file by hand, you can check out the sticky here How to edit Xorg.conf.

 

[JGuru]

You can even keep your screen resolution to 1280 x 1024. Even I use a 17" monitor.
You can choose between 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024. Choose the one that suits you.

 

[QwertyManiac]

I'd love to use 1280x1024 but its @ low refresh rate (60) for me, so it strains my eyes... any way to OC monitor?

 

[titun]

thanks

Yes changing to 1024x768 helped greatly. I think I should be more careful as well as scratch my head a little more before asking such small queries.

Thanks ya all guys.

Hope to bug you with more questions soon.

 

[borg]

Man, thats not a small query. Its a real problem. Funny, i never faced this problem on Windows. Anyways, one of the ways to get around is to move the taskbar around. So if your taskbar is down & you cant get to the OK/cancel buttons, try moving the taskbar to the left/right. See if that helps. This is rreally a nagging problem though. They should do somthing about it.

 

[titun]

MP3 Playback

After replacing my yum.conf with a fresh one from *www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware I did this to play mp3 in Rythmbox
"yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly" , after being root of course. It said "nothing to do".
Then I tried for Noaton by doing "yum install kdemultimedia-extras". It installed total 7 packages/plugins worth 57 MB. Took a lots of time, said the installation to be successful. Still no MP3 playback for me !!
That was yesterday. Today I did "yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly" again & it continued for few minutes, added/deleted some packages and at the end said "No match for argument: gstreamer-plugins-ugly , nothing to do."
Then what to do

I am referring from (1) *stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Extras
(2) *www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware