Re: toshiba video problem
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:00:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> > > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr
> > > > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not
> > > > in .profile.
> > >
> > > To the best of my knowledge, Debian does not use ~/.xprofile when
> > > starting a standard X session. (If some specific package within Debian
> > > does, then it's outside my experience, and also unique to that one
> > > package.)
> >
> > >From memory, ~/.xprofile is a GNOME/GDM file. I do not know why the OP
> > thinks it has some importance in Debian's standard X framework. I do not
> > think any DEbian documentation places any emphasis on it. The only files
> > of importance to the framework are ~/.xsession and ~/.xsessionrc.
>
> I think Arch uses it, and they have an extremely good wiki. Sometimes,
> searching Google for the answer to a Debian question will turn up a
> link to the Arch wiki. And pretty often, an answer that works in Arch
> will also work in Debian. But not always.
Good though it may be, Arch's wiki does not fit what is done on
Debian regarding X. ~/.profile is not a Debian component in the
configuration of X. The OP should discard advice to use it.
> It's also possible that they turned up an answer involving ~/.xprofile
> from some random web forum where GNOME users happened to be conversing,
> if what you say is correct. GNOME is rapidly becoming its own separate
> sub-operating-system, where nothing works quite the same way as it does
> on regular Linux-based systems. Recognizing that the answer you're
> reading only applies to GNOME requires a fair amount of experience.
Who knows where the OP obtained his information? Wherever it was
from, he should ignore it.
--
Brian.
>
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