On 04/07/14 00:26, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:11:34 -0700 don fisher wrote:
Can you tell me where documentation exists on how to set up the XWindow system. I used /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the past, but that all appears to have been replaced by something I cannot find.
You don't, it "just works" (except when it doesn't). All the info is supposed to come from the EDID reported by the monitor. Any tweaks are done at runtime via xrandr, xinput, etc. (which may or may not be supported by some GUI setting tool that (maybe) remembers and reproduces the settings via things like the gnome settings daemon).
On my system at home, I have to override the EDID info to make the system believe I have a 47 inch monitor and not a 7 inch monitor with incredibly dense resolution :-). This has all
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If you're using GNOME, did you try setting "org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor" to 1? there were some problems with gnome-shell and hiDPI issues.
(I am not sure if those issues were fixed by subsequent updates to gnome-shell).
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