On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:16:49AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006 08:33:50 +0100 > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > Depending on how you start X, you may be starting it with the -dpi > > > option. (my gdm.conf uses: `X -dpi 96') > > > AFAIK, this will override any DisplaySize settings in xorg.conf. > > > > That was it! - except it was in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf not > > /etc/gdm/gdm.con, which is why I missed it.. > > > > Beats me why a display manager would think that it had a better idea > > of the screen resolution than the X server, but its fixed now. > > > > Thanks, > > DigbyT > > Keep an eye on this one. /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf is not listed as > a configuration file, so it will be overwritten without warning on the > next upgrade to gdm. Better to override the setting in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf > instead.
Agreed - customizing the content of /usr/share is probably not a good idea, and certainly should not be made necessary. There probably needs to be a comment in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf pointing to where default values are being obtained, as it took me a while to find out why there were no servers listed in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf... Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
