Bug#364545: Further investigation

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

reassign 364545 gdm
kthxbye

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:19 +0200, Vincent Lönngren wrote:
> It seems that when no server arguments are given in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf,
> the default arguments include -dpi 96 instead of just leaving it up to
> the xserver to decide the dpi. That means the only way to have the
> xserver use the values of xorg.conf, or the values read from the
> monitor, is to specify the arguments to the server and leave out -dpi.
> The arguments need to be specified with 0=/path/to/X something -dpi 78
> -something, and not with command= like earlier.
> 
> I think it's a bad thing that the default behaviour when there are no
> specified arguments is to give a dpi value to the server. If I'm wrong
> and this is indeed a good thing, then it should at least be more clearly
> documented.
> 
> Since this is a gdm problem, I believe this bug report should be moved
> to gdm.

Indeed, reassigning.


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