Re: toshiba video problem
On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
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.
>
>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.
And often online advice is at least 5 years old, usually more. Time
enough in the world of debian for things change, change back, invert
and circle for a landing. I am adventurous to simply try things.
Eventually, usually, something works.
--
Noah Sombrero
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