Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:39, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>
>> A very high default resolution: 1920×1200
>> I think this is the theoretical maximum the CRT monitor (IIyama
>> HM903D/DT) and VGA card, but in practise it was not OK.
>> I think it is better to use a maximum default resolution of 1200x1024
>> for X, even when the VGA-card and the monitor can do better.
>>
Paul, what do you mean by "it was not OK"? Did you get something on
display but it was ugly? Or nothing at all?
>
> I have seen the same on one of my own systems. Reassigning the report to
> the X.Org people for this.
> In my case the problem is that at that resolution the refresh rate is very
> low; but another problem can be that everything is just too small for
> comfort
It's hard to find a default value that would make all machines/users happy.
As long as the X server works, it might be easier to keep the current
behavior (use the maximal resolution) and rely on things like XRandR to
change the resolution at runtime if needed. Of course, some people might
get bored if they have to use xrandr every time they start the X server,
and thus will want to update their xorg.conf accordingly. Fortunately, I
also expect lots of people to be fine with the maximal resolution.
Brice
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