On 2 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote: > Debian> You could set up an alias. HTH > > That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm...
/etc/X11/{k,x}dm/Xservers is the place to set it for kdm and xdm, gdm is probably the same. They are conffiles. LyX was mentioned in the original post... ~/.lyx/lyxrc is where you override the resolution reported by X (and choose the default zoom factor). later, Bruce