Re: screen resolution question
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:45:44AM +0000, Glenn Becker wrote:
> I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings
> changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can
> recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was
> defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop can
> handle this, but ... I also have older eyes and prefer a setting of
> 1024x768.
>
> So I went looking into the xorg.conf file, and found that ... no default
> screen res appeared to be set! In fact the file contains almost _no_
> details and consists mainly of a lot of sections that look like this:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
>
> ... making it look like a lot of the X configuration is handled
> automatically.
>
> Well, great ... cough ... I would rather it _wasn't_ handled
> automatically, because I want to choose my own settings. I've handrolled
> my own .conf files for X for ages ... is there any way for me to do this
> and not have my settings overwritten by an automated thingum that has no
> idea what my specific needs are?
>
> If this is an attempt at an improvement I cannot say I care much for it.
> Certainly I can change the settings via the Gnome GUI, but this doesn't
> help me if (as often happens on my old machine) I'd rather just run
> Fluxbox.
Please see my reply to a similar question at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01804.html
Best regards,
Mirko
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