(I don't have anything to do with the Debian X packages, I am just a long-time Debian user who happens to follow the debian-x mailing list which receives these bug reports.)
Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >However, why am I having to add the dpi switch to the startx command now, >after all this time (2+ years) running Sid on the machine without having to >do so before? It has _always_ defaulted to 100 dpi previously, even when >XFree86 was still in the rotation. If I remember correctly (I hope I do, but I'm not quite sure), the file /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which startx uses, contained the following command in woody and sarge: exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp Perhaps this has changed in Xorg 7.x? I remember previously having to remove the "-dpi 100" manually, because I wanted to specify the actual resolution in the configuration file. I never understood why the Debian default setting was to override anything specified in the server configuration file, so if this default command-line argument was removed in Xorg 7, I'm personally quite happy with the change. However, perhaps it should be documented, e.g., in the NEWS file? (I don't know if it already is, I haven't looked at the 7.x packages yet.) Another possibility would be to ask for the resolution when the X packages are configured, and write this out to the auto-generated X server configuration file. I think the proper place to configure the resolution should be the server configuration file, since that contains all the other information about the monitor (such as the supported frequencies, if they are not autodetected), and since (I think) the server command-line arguments need to be specified in multiple files (at least previously, xserverrc applied only to startx and, for example, xdm had its own configuration file where the server command-line options could be specified - I don't know if this has changed recently). -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
