Planet Geek

Yawl gets a new face.

Investing in hardware for my workspace is always hard, particularly when it could easily be interpreted as "Oh, that's just for FUN."

But with the price of LCD monitors dropping, it was time to take the plunge and replace my 17" 1280x1024 monitor with a Dell 2001FP 19" 1600x1200 version. Ebay helped me find one for just a hair under $200, and a few days later, here it is.

Gutsy on yawl was very easy to reconfigure, using the nvidia-settings tool to generate a new Xorg.conf file (it was ALMOST pointy clicky from beginning to end, the only thing I had to do manually was copy the Xorg.conf file into place.

I'm already comfortably settled into the idea I've increased my desktop area by about 30 percent, but occasionally I find myself wondering at all this great real estate.

Posted by dbs at November 9, 2007 5:42 PM