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Hi,
Thanks for your reply;
As an observation there are a lot of different places that the Xserver
is configured and that this complicates the process of finding errors in the configuration - the ones I'm aware of are:
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
/etc/X11/serverconfig
I'm not familiar with this one.
Hmm - actually this one appears to be a mistake on my part - it appears to
be from the Nautilus package - why exactly it felt it needs
to create a 'serverconfig' directory in /etc/X11 is beyond me.
(It is empty except for a .directory file with
Server Settings, Configure network services
translated into a vast number of languages).
Although it might not have been unreasonable to think that something
called serverconfig in the /etc/X11 directory might have something
to do with the X server.
/etc/X11/xserver
This is a directory, not a file...at least on my system.
Yep it's a directory for me as well containing a SecurityPolicy
file - and I assume that others are also read from the same place?
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
and probably some to do with particular display managers as well.
It seems to be that it would be nice to slim some of these down if possible.
Pretty difficult without deviating from upstream practice.
Fair enough - thank you for passing this upstream.
All config files should have manual pages. If you identify any that don't, please see if the bug has been reported, and file a report if it it has
not.
Dave (having just helped someone with a DPI problem)
Are you aware of:
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#fontswrongsize
?
I wasn't - thank you; what that doesn't mention is that also it can be
changed due to interactions with DDC from the monitor; I suspect (but
don't know) that if DDC can't be read then it falls back to some
defaults; so I think there are weird interactions such as what happens
if you let a machine boot to X and then switch the monitor on
or have it going through a KVM. Forcing the DPI and disabling DDC
seems to be a way to get a saner more consistent behaviour.
(In addition I'm never really convinced X really likes running
at anything other than one of 75 or 100 dpi what with older
bitmap fonts).
Thanks again for your reply,
Dave
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