[After reading your reply, I tried to investigate 9.2 further according to your experience, but my 9.2 box, which is also my 9.3 box and an OS/2 & DOS box, has just decided not to POST any more. Feels like the keyboard cable plug has become partially detached. Don't know when or if I might be able to fix it, so my SuSEs might be limited to 9.0 & 10.0 for a while.] B. Stia wrote:
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 10:07 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
Although I have GTK1 (gnomecc) installed I don't think any of my present apps use it. Probably should uninstall it and see what happens. Now, I looked in GTK2 (gnome-control-center) very carefully. I find a way to set the screen resolution but nothing for the dpi. I am supposing from some past email exchanges that X is supposed to know ??
Plain as day in all the screenshots at http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/tmp/ff-gtk2-dpi.html in the gnome-control-center Font Rendering Details window. DPI is short for dots per inch resolution.
If everything in chkcinfig --list is off does that mean that gnomecc is not doing anything? ( a conclusion from an earlier statement)
If everything in chkconfig --list was off you would have little if anything working anywhere. Do you mean everything on the xfs line is off? If so, turn it on for at least runlevel 5.
You can see in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267194 that Akkana & I had more recent discussion, just over one year ago. It seems I've learned enough since then that I need to update that page again.
OK, read that with interest. Supposedly everything was fixed. Didn't know you were a developer. Thanks
Developer in the usual sense of the word really isn't the right term for what I do. I'm not a c++, gcc, java, JS, perl, python, bash, etc. programmer. I do put in considerable time on the Mozilla project, but as alpha tester, QA, bug reporter, website maintenance, user support, and rarely, bug fixer. The only few bugs I've provided patch fixes for are data or UI style (CSS) bugs. I keep Chatzilla open most of the time on more than 12 channels, including irc://moznet/#css and irc://moznet/#linux where anyone from here is welcome to join.
OK, and I thank you. Here is what I found. I dropped back to level 3 and tried, several times. to enter the dpi parameter for startx. It choked and brought me back to the logon screen.
'startx -dpi 100' ? It worked for me with all #s I tried, e.g. 100, 120, 96, 108. The thing to do then is to compare /var/log/XFree86.0.logs between trying with and without a -dpi parameter to startx, and with starting with xdm. There should be some difference(s) that would point someplace useful.
I then just did a plain startx in frustration and lo & behold it started with the 96 dpi resolution. What a wonderful difference. ( I had tried this earlier as to your suggestion but it didn't work. Probably because I had not yet edited the Xresources file)
Here's why I wanted to fiddle with 9.2 some more. It seems I forgot there are two Xresources files: /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources /etc/X11/Xresources So, I'd start by trying matching Xft.dpi: values at the end of each file. On my Mandriva 2006 server, my only Linux box running and available ATM, I have done exactly this, where each of the two came with initial values set to 90, and where the within preceding comment says "...prevents tiny fonts or huge fonts depending on the screen size".
After doing that xdpyinfo reported screen resolution as 1600x1200 (no change) screen size as 432x321 ( as opposed to it's former 542x406 mm) and dpi as 94x95 (as opposed to it's former 75x75) Progress here. This is what it is supposed to be.
:-)
Now, here is where I am at. If I start the OS with the graphical init 5 I get the wrong paarameters. If I start at init 3 and do a startx it starts x with the proper parameters. I repeated this drill 3 or 4 times to verify the behavior.
WHAT ?? is causing this ??
Linux configurabilty cuts two ways. :-p If matching Xresources files don't fix it, next thing to try is the other thing I wanted to start 9.2 for. In Mandriva in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc for several versions there has been a default setting 'UseTheme=true'. I know SuSE has been doing this in kdmrc too, but don't remember when it started, which I'm pretty sure was sometime after 9.0. I don't like the login manager behavior of these themes, so I change mine always to false to get a traditional KDM greeter. It could be that there is a theme conflict that doing as I have done would fix. A peek into /etc/X11/Xsession shows references also to .Xresources and .Xdefaults in $HOME. I'd check to see if those files exist, and if so, see if there are any settings applicable to DPI in either or both. I'd also look in /etc/X11/Xservers for a -dpi # parameter for :0, and if there isn't one, try one. If none of the above help, you could just keep doing startx, or proceed to upgrade to 10.0. :-) -- "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/