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?
Doc
Anno domini 2020 Tue, 28 Jan 11:56:24 -0700 D. R. Evans scripsit:
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:
- Where is the value 1024x768 coming from?
- 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?
Doc
Did you do a "fgrep 1024 ~/.trinity -R|grep 768" ?
Dne út 28. ledna 2020 D. R. Evans napsal(a):
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:
- Where is the value 1024x768 coming from?
- 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?
Doc
If you run only the xserver itself, what resolution will it use? What is mentioned about the resolution in /var/log/XOrg.0.log? Are the display capabilities correctly detected?
On one of my machines I have a monitor connected to a 10m long VGA cable. This has a problem detecting the capabilities of the monitor and therefore the Xserver starts by default as 1024 × 768. I had to add lines Modeline with higher resolution values to xorg.conf. Then everything works fine, no matter how the monitor's capabilities are not detected.
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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:
- Where is the value 1024x768 coming from?
- 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.
D. R. Evans composed on 2020-01-28 14:25 (UTC-0700):
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.
Xorg.0.log is where X troubleshooting begins. Knowing the exact GPU model usually helps too: inxi -Gxx
run from within Konsole or Xterm.
Easiest for everyone usually is:
pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Thank you for all the suggestions.
I made a list of them, but while pondering them something else occurred to me: that, since the desktop manager seemed to be starting at the correct resolution, the problem perhaps wasn't with X per se, but with some setting for TDE that was confusing the issue.
So I renamed ~/.trinity and rebooted (yes, I know that the reboot probably wasn't necessary, but I wanted to get a completely uncontaminated situation, with both X and TDE starting with no chance of any leftover junk confusing things).
TDE came up at 1920x1200.
So far, everything now seems to be working correctly. So I've tentatively concluded that some leftover configuration parameter somewhere was causing TDE to start at a resolution different from the X resolution, and that from now on it should start at the correct resolution.
Somewhere I imagine that there's documentation for all the configuration parameters that affect TDE startup, but I was unable to find said documentation; so while I'm happy that things now seem to be working, I'm not particularly comfortable with the solution. If someone knows where detailed documentation for TDE configuration can be found, I'd be delighted if they would share that information.
Indeed, the entire TDE startup process, really: somewhere there's presumably something that tells X to start sddm when X starts; and somewhere else there must be something that tells TDE to start when "TDE" is selected and I provide login credentials to sddm; and then TDE must start... but the details of any of this seem to be hard to find. I'd really like to educate myself to understand every step in the process.
Doc
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:56:24 -0700 "D. R. Evans" doc.evans@gmail.com wrote:
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:
- Where is the value 1024x768 coming from?
It may be one of the built-in modes X uses when it fails to query your system. If this is a desktop system, try hooking it up to a different monitor just to see if it's failing an EDID query or something.
- 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?
First, run "xrandr -q" at the command line. That will tell you what screen you're using, what modes are available, and what the refesh rates are.
Use cvt to create a modeline for the resolution you want, based on this information.
Verify that you can set your desired mode using "xrandr --newmode [modeline info]".
There are three things you can do with the information at this point:
Include the whole modeline in your xorg.conf, as in this example:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Modeline "1280x1024_60.00" 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -HSync +Vsync Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection
Your current xorg.conf may be failing because you only specified a resolution, and not the rest.
Or add the xrandr --newmode command to ~/.xprofile, which will then be executed when your user logs in.
Or slip the xrandr --newmode command into some script file in your system's/the X server's/TDE's startup sequence—somewhere near the middle of the starttde script would be one possible place, although you might prefer to look for whatever your distro uses to bring up the display manager, to have it activate earlier.
Hopefully one of these things will work for you.
E. Liddell
E. Liddell composed on 2020-01-28 19:28 (UTC-0500):
Include the whole modeline in your xorg.conf, as in this example:
Don't...
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Modeline "1280x1024_60.00" 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -HSync +Vsync Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection
Xorg is every bit as capable of generating the modelines it needs as is gtf or cvt. All it needs it good information. Normally it gets it from EDID. When the EDID is bad, provide the info it needs to calculate from.
Normally the rates come from EDID, e.g. as shown by these Xorg.0.log excerpts: (II) modeset(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync (II) modeset(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh
Commonly the screen section is purely superfluous when appropriate specs are provided in monitor section.
They are in the display's manual or on the internet, or a result from 'hwinfo --monitor'.
Never ever have I needed a modeline since Xorg was forked off of XFree86. Xorg is smart enough. It will automatically supply other supported modes when called for instead of you needing to get cvt out and again modify xorg.con*.
Assuming xorg.conf is even the right way forward, which here I doubt, modelines and cvt are virtually certainly unnecessary (and /ancient/) manual configuration components. OP's xorg.confs are loaded with unnecessaries. None of the input or font data or comments are relevant to video mode employed. Unlikely BusID or explicit driver specification or display subsections are needed either, or bit depths.
Following as xorg.conf should be sufficient, e.g. (for a native 1920x1200 9 year old 24" NEC; adjust to actual specs before attempting use):
Section "Device" Identifier "DefaultDevice" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "DefaultMonitor" HorizSync 31-77 VertRefresh 56-61 Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "DefaultScreen" Device "DefaultDevice" Monitor "DefaultMonitor" EndSection
In OP's situation, manual configuration is almost certainly a workaround for a problem better fixed than worked around. There's no good reason for needing intervention to have a display use it's native mode. There probably isn't a GPU made in the past 15 years at least that can't handle 1920x1200 entirely through automagic, or with a tiny bit of help in the form of HorizSync and VertRefresh. Thus what's really needed is the specs involved (inxi -Gxx), and Xorg.0.log, and possibly the journal, to find the source of the problem.
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