Re: Session exiting in GDM and XDM

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Xvidtune is mainly a testing program, rather than something that you use
every time you use X.  You should center the image how you want it with
xvidtune, then press the show button.  This will output a line of numbers
that you can then paste into the file /etc/X11/XF86Config in the monitor
section (just search for the Modeline keyword).  You can then add the new
modeline to the file (and optionally delete the old one).  Now when you
start X, the video display should look correct.

This change will benefit you if you use xdm or gdm.

James Henstridge.

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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, D. Nathan Hood wrote:

> For a long time I was using XDM to control logins on my linux box, when
> i downloaded and installed gnome i switched over to GDM, but quickly
> noticed a problem.  every time i exit from x-windows under GDM, it does
> a complete restart on the x-server (or something similar) while this is
> not a major concern for the most part, my monitor doesn't agree 100%
> with x-windows and i have to do some xvidtune tweaking to get the image
> completely onto the screen.  when GDM restarts it completely restarts
> the x-server so any changes i made in xvidtune are lost, and the screen
> image is out of position again.  this doesn't happen under XDM.  for
> some reason XDM doesn't do a complete restart of the x-server so when i
> log out, the changes i made in xvidtune are kept by the system.
> 
> i like the looks of gdm alot more than i like xdm, is there any way i
> can either make the xvidtune settings permanent (probably by editing
> monitor settings someplace, but i don't know about that) or is there a
> way to get GDM to behave more like XDM?
> 
> thanks in advance
> -nathan hood
> 
> 
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