from dapper to edgy: a problem with screen/font size

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Apr 29, Thilo Six did say:

> 
> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote the following on 29.04.2007 07:47:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Certainly.... I've attached: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" to this reply.
> 
> That´s the important part:
> <--------------------------------------------------------------------
> Modes	"1280x1024" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------->
> 
> You should be able to switch between those resolution modes.
> <ctrl>+<alt>+<+> and <ctrl>+<alt>+<-> are interpreted by the xserver directly.

Which explains why I have zero memory of having had to configure
something to get this working for the previous versions... <grin>

> I am wondering if there is something in between that catches those short cuts
> before they reach the xserver.

I don't have a clue what... There is certainly no place where I tried to
assign those keybindings to anything else.

 
> Can you create a new user and log in with that and try it again from there?

Yeah sure... 

No joy there. The shortcut still didn't work...

 
> > One thing I should perhaps mention. How my copy of edgy got here...
> > 
> > Breezy was installed from cd. Then I edited /etc/apt/sources.list
> > and used "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get the dapper system where this
> > still worked. Then I recently was motivated by a new printer to again
> > use "apt-get dist-upgrade" to update that dapper to this edgy... 
> > 
> > That's when it stopped working. <sigh>
> 
> When upgrading from one kde version to another i had several mysteries going
> on here that disappeared when i cleaned out my profile (aka ~/.kde)
> (same with gnome by the way).

Well if that was going to work I'd think it would have worked for the
temporary user I just created [ I think  to test if it was a user config
issue?]

But I'll give it a try...
I shutdown the gui, used mc to move my ~/.kde elsewhere... reran startx.

No joy... The <ctrl>+<alt>+<+> <ctrl>+<alt>+<-> keybindings still didn't
work. So I shutdown kde and restored my ~/.kde to get back my global
shortcuts etc... back.

BTW Do you happen to know if gpg supposed to depend on the gui???

I know this is a bit off topic but for all I know it could be related...

I ask because since sending this was the last thing I was going to do
today before shutting down my pc. And since I was at runlevel 3
(having just exited mc after moving my .kde dir back to ~/) and neither
vim nor pine which I use to compose & send my mail require the gui,
I thought I'd save a few seconds and not wait for kde to fire back up.

However, I routinely use gpg to spellcheck & "sign" all my mail (message
body) from within my chosen editor via these lines snipped from my .vimrc

:map s :w^M:w! $spellfile^M:!aspell -c $spellfile^M

:map S :w^MG:r $spellfile^Mkd1G

:map <C-s> :!rm ${spellfile}.asc^M:!cat ${spellfile} $sig/gpglink >${spellfile}._-_^M:!gpg --output ${spellfile}.asc --clearsign ${spellfile}._-_^M

:map <C-g> :w^MG:r ${spellfile}.asc^Mkd1G

This has worked for a LONG time on many linux installations including
edgy. But I usually do this from within a kde konsole. This time I was at
a runlevel 3 console and what it did was lock up... !!! ??? 

   #############################################################
   ##_if_you'd_prefer_an_clearsigned_".asc"_text_file_of_this_##
   ##message_as_an_mime_encoded_attachment,just_ask_me_while__##
   ##it's_STILL_IN_my_outbox_folder_._._._=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+;-)_##
   #gpg sig for: Joe (theWordy) Philbrook DSA key ID 0x6C2163DE#
   # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ #
   #############################################################
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