Re: "Tips"?

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 19:41 +0100, Joe wrote:

So now, before I log

on, after establishing myself as the user, I click a little icon in

the lower right corner of the screen and a menu pops up, giving me

different choices of GUI desktops: GNOME, GNOME classic, MATE,

CINNAMON, XFCE are the ones I looked at.

When I start up, my 1920x1200 monitor is in a 1280x1024 mode, no matter whether I use GDM or SDDM. But the login manager is trying to project a 1920x1200 picture. The result is that the little icon in the lower right corner is about two inches beyond the right edge of the screen. In order to choose a different default window manager, I need to disconnect that monitor and connect an antique HP 1280x1024 monitor. After the window manager starts, in either X or Wayland, the monitor switches to 1920x1200.

(1) Is there a way to convince GDM and SDDM (and any other login managers of which I'm unaware) to start up the monitor correctly?

(2) Could the maintainers of GDM and SDDM (and any other login managers of which I'm unaware) please move the little icon to be centered below the password box?