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vncserver und olvwm installieren

sudo apt-get install vnc4server olvwm

vnc server konfigurieren

touch .vnc/xstartupchmod a+x .vnc/xstartupvi .vnc/xstartup

#!/bin/sh# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:# unset SESSION_MANAGER# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresourcesxsetroot -solid greyvncconfig -iconic &xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &olvwm &

vncserver starten:

vncserver :1 -name 8Bit -depth 8 -geometry 1600x1200

Mit vncclient verbinden: localhost:1

vncviewer localhost:1

vnc server stoppen

vncserver -kill :1

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April, 30, 2010
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H20 - What Happened @ Groezrock 2010

via youtube.com

I never thought this could be me
I guess you never do, 'til it's happening to you
like all the fun turns into shame
and all the "could have beens" rearrange
so little time so many crimes, guilt like a chain chokes my will away
redemption never seemed so cruel
and all my gods never seemed so weak

Wake up engage now derailed and enraged
it used to be so easy
get up I'm game now I'm sick and I'm tame counting cost with lost
where is the hope they gave
and don't think that I can't hear you laugh
I used to be a lot like you but now I'm only me
I used to be a lot like you but now I'm only me I'm only me

Drink to pills to shots turns into shock
a habit and a pawn
for every hand goes round the pain gets so damn loud
the hammer hits and I'm down
trust no one
hey why should I, they gave me the poison dressed like life
cheated smacked up and diseased cry to sleep and fight to eat
used to be a pro at this
now I've broken my own wrist
rotten teeth and life unsung you'll forget me when I'm gone

Wake up engage now derailed and enraged
it used to be so easy
get up I'm game now I'm sick and I'm tame counting cost with lost
I used to be a lot like you but now I'm only me
I used to be a lot like you but now I'm only me I'm only me

Verse - Earth and Stone

Staring into the sun, his eyes tearing and burning. Thoughts of that warm
Day he closed up his heart to the world. Few walked beside him, many just
Passed him by. So he'll just stay numb and sit there; quietly fall behind.

Watched a man climb a mountain, watched that man's end of time. No conversation
With the giver, his father lives only in his mind. Took a chance to see her.
Fucked up her world. He never wanted nothing.

So fucked up on the inside, too much to show. No bandage for these wounds
Or the ones he cut deeper than his own. He smiles and waves from a distance.
Come in closer to see him broken. Touch the face that's true in focus.
Feel the lines he cut through time. To remember the one that he's left
Behind. No chance for redemption, saw his time come and go. He wished for the
Best man to save her from his spell. Conversed with Earth and Stone
"why did you leave me alone?" He Fell to his knees and he lost himself.

Watched a man climb a mountain, watched that man's end of time. No conversation
With the giver, his father lives only in his mind. Took a chance to see her.
Fucked up her world. He never wanted nothing.

http://www.last.fm/music/Verse/_/Earth+and+Stone

Rotate just one monitor with Ubuntu + nvidia

I took some time this week to figure out how to rotate just my Dell 2005FPW in an Ubuntu dual-monitor setup. The graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 6200 LE, and I'm v180.44 of the proprietary binary drivers.

This gives you an idea of the setup I was going for, where the red monitor is the primary, and the blue monitor is the rotated secondary.

While I had been happily using Nvidia TwinView, I found that rotating just one of the monitors was impossible in this mode, due to the entire desktop being a single X screen. Instead, I switched to "Separate X screens", and then invoke the "Rotate" option on one of them.

I also had to use Xinerama, which is an X extension that allows multiple X screens to operate as a single screen, allowing you to share windows, a task bar and a background between them.

Here is the xorg.conf file I ended up with. Most of it was generated from the Nvidia config tool, but then I tweaked it by hand a little.
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    ...
    Option    "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection

...

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL 2005FPW"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Configured Video Device"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    Option         "UseFBDev" "true"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200 LE"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200 LE"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          1
    Option          "Rotate" "left"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Configured Video Device"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP: 1680x1050 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1680x1050 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection
Voila! I can view web pages and edit code in 16:9 vertical, while doing everything else in 16:9 horizontal.