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

[Thilo Six]

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote the following on 29.04.2007 23:23:

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>>> 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.

I have just checked it here (Feisty) within in gnome and kde and in both it
works here.
So I have to say sorry but i can´t give any further hints.

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> 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... !!! ??? 

any glue either. sorry.


bye Thilo
-- 
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- some friend of mine

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