Hi, Thanks for your reply; > > As an observation there are a lot of different places that the Xserver > > is configured and that this complicates the process of finding errors in > > the configuration - the ones I'm aware of are: > > > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > /etc/X11/serverconfig > > I'm not familiar with this one.
Hmm - actually this one appears to be a mistake on my part - it appears to be from the Nautilus package - why exactly it felt it needs to create a 'serverconfig' directory in /etc/X11 is beyond me. (It is empty except for a .directory file with Server Settings, Configure network services translated into a vast number of languages). Although it might not have been unreasonable to think that something called serverconfig in the /etc/X11 directory might have something to do with the X server. > > /etc/X11/xserver > > This is a directory, not a file...at least on my system. Yep it's a directory for me as well containing a SecurityPolicy file - and I assume that others are also read from the same place? > > /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc > > > > and probably some to do with particular display managers as well. > > It seems to be that it would be nice to slim some of these down if > > possible. > > Pretty difficult without deviating from upstream practice. Fair enough - thank you for passing this upstream. > All config files should have manual pages. If you identify any that don't, > please see if the bug has been reported, and file a report if it it has > not. > > > Dave (having just helped someone with a DPI problem) > > Are you aware of: > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#fontswrongsize > > ? I wasn't - thank you; what that doesn't mention is that also it can be changed due to interactions with DDC from the monitor; I suspect (but don't know) that if DDC can't be read then it falls back to some defaults; so I think there are weird interactions such as what happens if you let a machine boot to X and then switch the monitor on or have it going through a KVM. Forcing the DPI and disabling DDC seems to be a way to get a saner more consistent behaviour. (In addition I'm never really convinced X really likes running at anything other than one of 75 or 100 dpi what with older bitmap fonts). Thanks again for your reply, Dave -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/
