On 5/14/25 15:02, Van Snyder wrote:
When I start up, my 1920x1200 monitor is in a 1280x1024 mode, no matter
whether I use GDM or SDDM. But the login manager is trying to project a
1920x1200 picture. The result is that the little icon in the lower
right corner is about two inches beyond the right edge of the screen.
In order to choose a different default window manager, I need to
disconnect that monitor and connect an antique HP 1280x1024 monitor.
After the window manager starts, in either X or Wayland, the monitor
switches to 1920x1200.
(1) Is there a way to convince GDM and SDDM (and any other login
managers of which I'm unaware) to start up the monitor correctly?
I have lightdm, and it always started up with my monitors arranged
wrong. I think all I did was change
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/80-display-setup.conf to have
[SeatDefaults]
display-setup-script=/export/bin/fixmonitors
where fixmonitors is a script I wrote that uses xrandr to arrange the
monitors the way I like them. There is probably some similar way to
modify GDM or SDDM.
