scrambled panel

[Jim Cornette]

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

> 
> is there some way to restore order to this sitch?
> 
> thanks
> 
> charles zeitler
>