Bug #331
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Task #272: Update configuration files that need it
No more xorg.conf on Squeeze
Added by Anonymous over 12 years ago.
Updated about 12 years ago.
Description
There is no more configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf on Squeeze builds, despite our custom dexconf script in /usr/bin/. This custom file may then be useless and we have to find a new way to fix limits to the screen resolution in case of CRT screens. Note that there is a boot parameter for screen resolution, so this may be possible. Unless we adapt the environment icons/fonts to the screen resolution?
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- Due date changed from 08/29/2011 to 11/21/2011
- Target version changed from Squeeze to 2011-11
- Start date changed from 08/08/2011 to 10/01/2011
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to Jean-Michel Philippe
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
The package read-edid can be used to probe for display parameters. It provides two commands that must be “piped” together. We can then get the list of screen resolutions:
$ sudo get-edid 2>/dev/null | parse-edid 2>/dev/null | grep -o '[0-9]*x[0-9]*'
1280x800
However the display size doesn't seem to be reported, so DPI can't be computed. In the package x11-utils, the command xdpyinfo gives this information but X should certainly be already running:
$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions:
dimensions: 1280x800 pixels (338x211 millimeters)
- % Done changed from 10 to 20
The X server DPI parameter only changes font size. A large DPI leads to large fonts, a small one to small fonts. As we're running X through GDM, the X DPI must be changed in the GDM configuration file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. See examples at the bottom of /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf:
[servers]
0=Standard
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -audit 0 -dpi 80
flexible=true
- Due date changed from 11/21/2011 to 02/20/2012
- Target version changed from 2011-11 to 2012-02
- Due date deleted (
02/20/2012)
- Target version changed from 2012-02 to 2012-08
- Start date deleted (
10/01/2011)
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