28 Jan
2020
28 Jan
'20
1:25 p.m.
D. R. Evans wrote on 1/28/20 11:56 AM:
I've installed TDE on a new system running debian
stable.
X is starting correctly with screen size 1920x1200, but every time when I log
in, I'm presented with a TDE desktop of size 1024x768 and have to resize it.
So I'm wondering:
1. Where is the value 1024x768 coming from?
2. How do I change it so that the TDE desktop starts at 1920x1200, so that I
don't need to modify it manually each time?
I made the elementary error of changing things and experimenting for a couple
of hours, until I became completely lost :-( (even more lost than usual).
So I wiped all my changes and can report the following behaviour with three
different configuration, starting from a completely clean as-installed system.
1. No xorg.conf (which is the default on a newly installed debian system).
The display manager comes up in a low resolution (probably 1024x768, but I
don't actually know that).
TDE comes up in 1024x768. Using the Resize and Rotate application (from the
system tray), I can change the desktop to 1920x1200. The larger desktop works
fine, but the text in some applications (e.g., Konqueror) is much larger than
it should be.
2. I then created an xorg.conf using the Xorg program, and made it available
in /etc/X11. A copy of this file is attached as xorg.conf.default.
The behaviour appeared unchanged (which I think is correct: the default
xorg.conf should behave the same as no xorg.conf, I believe). So:
The display manager comes up in a low resolution (probably 1024x768, but I
don't actually know that).
TDE comes up in 1024x768. Using the Resize and Rotate application (from the
system tray), I can change the desktop to 1920x1200. The larger desktop works
fine, but the text in some applications (e.g., Konqueror) is much larger than
it should be.
3. I then added lines to try to force a 1920x1200 desktop. The resulting X
configuration file is attached as xorg.conf.1920x1200. Now:
The display manager comes up in high resolution.
TDE still comes up in 1024x768. Using the Resize and Rotate application (from
the system tray), I can change the desktop to 1920x1200. The larger desktop
works although, unlike configuration #2, a lot of the text is uncomfortably
small (e.g., in window titles and the desktop panels). The text inside
windows, though (for example, in Konqueror) is a comfortable size.
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I will stop experimenting there, and wait for advice on what to change.
The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for configuration 3 is almost twice the size of
the one for configuration 2. They are both large enough that I don't want to
post them unless that will be a help. I can't say that their content is very
meaningful to me.
Doc
PS If the reflector removes the attachments, I'll put them somewhere
accessible and repost here with the relevant URLs.
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