Re: DPI setting

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2 May 2006 18:30:18 +0100
ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt> wrote:

> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> 
>  
> > Do you log in using gdm? 
> no, i use kdm.
> 
> 
> > The dpi setting in gdm (which is 96 by 
> > default) overrides that in xorg.conf. It does this by passing the 
> > '-dpi' option to the X server. 
> okey, i didn't know that... it look kind of dumb, why does a login
> manager should bypass anything of the resolution settings?

Many share that view. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339707 for example.

> 
> anyway, the settings i gave are working very well in my system:
> xorg 7 with nvidia driver.
> 
> > To check the setting in your case, look 
> > at the output of 'ps ax | grep X'.
> > 
> > 
> i got this
> 
> 
> 18765 tty7     SLs+ 121:50 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 
> vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-bCqXg

gdm does not appear to have set the dpi value in your case.

> 
> 
> bye
> ArameFarpado

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