pepsifx357
November 10th, 2010, 04:48 PM
I've installed Ubuntu server just to get the base install. I was wanting to know, after I've installed Xorg, is there a command that would start it in full screen?
I've tried the geometry option with
startx -geometry 1280X1050 but it's just a white screen with the terminal at the top left.
When just using startx command by itself, you get a black screen with the terminal in the upper left corner. When doing this, you have to move the cursor to the top left of the screen to type any more commands. Any commands you type, the output is in a tiny, confined, box and this is kinda frustrating for me.
I want X to start with the terminal in fullscreen so that I can run commands and see the output as if I were in the terminal without X. The reason I want to do this, is so that I can have a "headless" system and still use GUI programs like Firefox. I'm not worried about window managers yet, as I don't think I need them at this point.
thanks
I've tried the geometry option with
startx -geometry 1280X1050 but it's just a white screen with the terminal at the top left.
When just using startx command by itself, you get a black screen with the terminal in the upper left corner. When doing this, you have to move the cursor to the top left of the screen to type any more commands. Any commands you type, the output is in a tiny, confined, box and this is kinda frustrating for me.
I want X to start with the terminal in fullscreen so that I can run commands and see the output as if I were in the terminal without X. The reason I want to do this, is so that I can have a "headless" system and still use GUI programs like Firefox. I'm not worried about window managers yet, as I don't think I need them at this point.
thanks