Bug#555648: x11-xserver-utils: xrandr -o left: starts up with squished fonts; aspect ratio not adjusted ?
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.4+2
Severity: normal
In my .xsession, I run
xrandr -o left
which lets me use my screen in portrait mode. (Many modern flat
screens, including the Dell one I'm using, have a pivot at the back
that lets one turn them sideways.)
Unfortunately, doing this gets me a bunch of broken fonts. I exec
fvwm at the end of .xsession and it comes up with menus that are
barely readable: it looks as if the fonts have got their metrics set
for the original orientation, or something like that.
Until recently, it has been the case that I can simply exit and log in
again; the login prompt from xdm came up in the right orientation for
portrait mode and I got started sensibly on the second atttempt, with
perfectly sensible fonts. I'll report the new problem separately,
that now prevents me using that work-around ... it's rather more
severe !
I don't know what makes that go wrong, but clearly xrandr needs to do
something differently to ensure The Right fonts show up once X gets
going - perhaps it needs to restart xfs ? I don't know how any of
this works, though.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.3.3-9+nmu1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.10.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.5-1 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.2.1-2 X11 Input extension library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 2:1.0.0-5 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxxf86misc1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.4+4 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests:
pn cairo-5c <none> (no description available)
pn nickle <none> (no description available)
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