Computer Graphics, Linux and Everything…

Download and run this script https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/43645/dbcli.py

This will download and install the latest Dropbox version and start it. Once you configured it as you like, hit ctrl+c to kill it. We will configure it to start automatically when you log in.

Type ‘systemsettings’ in a shell, go to the Advanced tab and double click on Autostart. Click the Add Program button. Browse to this file ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox and click OK. Next time you log in, Dropbox should start.

I just installed Mandriva 2009.1 and one of the first things I did was to setup my dual monitor the same way I did for the past several versions of Mandriva. But this time, it didn’t work. I mean, it worked, but it didn’t save the xorg.conf and I had to redo the config everytime I logged in. After a bit of work, I found what had changed. Here the new procedure from the begining.

1. In the Mandriva Control Center (drakconf), go to Hardware -> Set Up The Graphical Server.
2. Click Options, check “Enable duplicate display on the second display”. Click OK.
3. Log out, and back in.
4. Open a terminal as root.
5. Type /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
6. Go to “X Server Display Configuration”
7. Select one of the monitors and set its position to “Right of” or “Left of”.
8. Click Apply. You should see something different on both screens.
9. Click “Save to X configuration file”.

Before that, I changed the permissions on the xorg.conf file to be able to write to it as a user. This is what doesn’t work anymore. Something brings back the permissions of that file to root only. So you need to run the nvidia-settings as root. Mandriva should simply ask for your root password when opening this tool, perhaps in the next version.