Re: RandR support in GNOME

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:00:08PM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El lun, 10 de 03 de 2003 a las 22:55, Jonathan Blandford escribió:
> > Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie> writes:
> > 
> > > 	Yep, none of that is obvious. I asked similar questions in #94702 and
> > > Jim suggested it might be a function of the display manager - i.e. on
> > > login gdm could restore the settings using ...
> > 
> > gdm could do a good job of that, and is probably the right place to do
> > it.  Questions about how to store the information still apply.
> 
> 
> But what happens when a user starts his X session with startx instead of
> gdm?
> 

Dunno, maybe we just say you have to specify your resolution on the
command line. There's no other way to get the right resolution on
startup, as GNOME won't be running yet. The best we could do with
startx is to change resolution midway through the splash screen.

Havoc