poorly written xorg.conf leads to frozen computer

[anonymous]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com>wrote:

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> anonymous-91 wrote:
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> > How can I just prevent X from starting up, so I can delete that file?
> > Currently I have the plymouth boot going so I'm not sure how to stop the
> > process.
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> When you boot, interrupt the boot process and edit the kernel line to put
> the number "3" at the end.  Then continue the boot into runlevel 3.  Login
> and remove the file and then reboot which should revert to what you had
> before with a full graphical login in runlevel 5
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> Thanks, that worked. I wasn't sure how to interrupt the boot process since
the grub menus was hidden. I read the manual and I just needed to press
escape.

When I right click on the workspace switcher and click preferences, I
> get a window with radio buttons for
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> Show only the current workspace, and
> Shaw all workspaces in: _____ rows
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> I'm on F10 x86_64, Gnome. I however did find a key in gconf,
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> /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/number_of_workspaces
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> However the description said its deprecated; "The number of workspaces
> the window manager should use This key has been deprecated since GNOME
> 2.12."
>
> Is something wrong here?
>

I'm not using x86_64 but that's exactly how mine works. The preferences no
longer include the option to change the number of workspaces, just the
number of rows.
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