Re: scrambled panel & x-session loss: update

--- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette(a)insight.rr.com&gt; wrote: > charles f. zeitler wrote: > > this sunday my xga monitor started acting up, > > the screen goes out & drops me to a login screen. > > > > i switched to my back-up monitor, and same scene. > > > > after re-attaching my xga monitor, i find my upper > > panel scrambled, "apps" "places" and "system' > > are now right-center, launchers to the right, > > clock left-center... and the 'move' function > > is greyed out... > > > Drop to runlevel 3 or boot into runlevel 3 and run > system-config-display --reconfig > > This should reconfigure your display from scratch and hopefully better. > > This has to be performed as root user. > > Another option is to run > X -configure > which will make a configuration file located in your directory called > /root. If it works, you will have to move the created file to /etc/X11 > from root and rename it as xorg.conf. > You might have to control-alt-backspace to kill the server and there > should be instructions at the prompt to test the configuration file. > > Jim > thanks for the tip. i went single-user & did the system-config-display thing. the next day or two should tell if this helps. i found root's panel in good shape, but mine is still scrambled. ugh. it looks like a shift to the right occurs.