Re: gdm and Sessions/Gnome

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Could this have something to do with which resolution it's using?

Last I looked at my kdm file it was starting at a 100 dpi, while when I 
ran from bash it started at 72, because startx executed 'X -dpi ...'.

--Pat

Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know this subject has come up quite a bit (gdm and garnome) but none
> of the past posts seem to address this issue.  So...
>
> I have just installed garnome 0.17.1 and set up gdm to run.  I added
> the required LD_LIBRARY_PATH et. all to the
> "$HOME/garnome/etc/gdm/gnomerc" file and logged in via gdm.  It works
> great!  There is only one exception between simply using the
> ".xsession" file and gdm: the font size.  When I use the ".xsession"
> file via startx the font "Sans 10" is of proper size to see on my
> 1600x1200 display.  But when I log in via gdm the size 10 font looks
> small and I have to increase the font size to 14.  
>
> Is this an expected behavior, or is gdm doing something wrong in the
> startup.  Garnome seems to run fine in every other respect...
>
> Thanks
> Parrish
>
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