Bug#339707: gdm overrides real X dpi
Meelis Roos
mroos at linux.ee
Fri Nov 18 06:31:35 UTC 2005
Package: gdm
Version: 2.8.0.6-1
Severity: normal
Since the latest update, gdm.conf contains
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 96 -audit 0
and thus it fixes dpi to be 96 no matter what the real dpi is.
I was using gdm with KDE and this broke my font setup - now switched to
kdm that does not mess with my dpi.
I have different machines with Linux and X the screen size reported by
monitor EDID has been correct for all of them so far _if_ the monitor
reports it - older ones don't and are used at about 72 or 75 dpi. So I
find the reasoning in #285029 strange. In summary it looks to me like
there was a X configuration problem on some (developer) machins and the
problem was fixed with a sledgehammer fixing this developer machines
(or gnomes) dpi to be everyones, irrespectible of their real setup. This
seems very wrong to me.
Anyway, I switched to kdm for now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-g741b2252
Locale: LANG=et_EE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=et_EE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.78 Add and remove users and groups
ii blackbox [x-window-m 0.70.1-1 Window manager for X
ii debconf [debconf-2.0 1.4.59 Debian configuration management sy
ii fluxbox [x-window-ma 0.9.14-1 Highly configurable and low resour
ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.10.0-8 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-te 2.10.0-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii icewm [x-window-mana 1.2.23-1 wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like wi
ii konsole [x-terminal- 4:3.4.2-4 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii kwin [x-window-manag 4:3.4.2-4 the KDE window manager
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.25-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-10 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii libdmx1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd 0.2.36-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.5-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.10.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.1-4 library for common error values an
ii libgsf-1-113 1.13.3-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.9.5-6 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxau6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Authentication library
ii libxdmcp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxml2 2.6.22-2 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-m 1:2.10.3-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii openbox [x-window-ma 3.2-7 standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii pterm [x-terminal-em 0.58-3 PuTTY terminal emulator
ii qvwm [x-window-manag 1:1.1.12-2.1 Windows95-like window manager for
ii rxvt [x-terminal-emu 1:2.6.4-9 VT102 terminal emulator for the X
ii rxvt-unicode [x-term 5.8-1 RXVT-like terminal emulator with U
ii sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20050709-6 a window manager for X11
ii twm [x-window-manage 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Tab window manager
ii wmaker [x-window-man 0.92.0-5 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii xbase-clients 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients
ii xfwm4 [x-window-mana 4.2.2-1 window manager of the Xfce project
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-em 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii dialog 1.0-20051107-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn gdm-themes <none> (no description available)
ii whiptail 0.51.6-31 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zenity 2.10.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
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