On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:45:44AM +0000, Glenn Becker wrote: > I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings > changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can > recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was > defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop can > handle this, but ... I also have older eyes and prefer a setting of > 1024x768. > > So I went looking into the xorg.conf file, and found that ... no default > screen res appeared to be set! In fact the file contains almost _no_ > details and consists mainly of a lot of sections that look like this: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > > ... making it look like a lot of the X configuration is handled > automatically. > > Well, great ... cough ... I would rather it _wasn't_ handled > automatically, because I want to choose my own settings. I've handrolled > my own .conf files for X for ages ... is there any way for me to do this > and not have my settings overwritten by an automated thingum that has no > idea what my specific needs are? > > If this is an attempt at an improvement I cannot say I care much for it. > Certainly I can change the settings via the Gnome GUI, but this doesn't > help me if (as often happens on my old machine) I'd rather just run > Fluxbox.
Please see my reply to a similar question at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01804.html Best regards, Mirko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
