startx display number makes big difference

Reza Roboubi reza at parvan.net
Sun May 7 09:42:48 UTC 2006


Reza Roboubi wrote:
> I just upgraded breezy to the latest xorg(full system upgrade.)  Firefox
> was displaying differently.  It's "personal toolbar" had a larger, less
> appealing font.  I'm using startx and fvwm not gnome.
> 
> Interestingly, doing
> startx -- :1
> completely fixes the issue.  (This lands on the terminal which apparently
> Ubuntu uses for default system boot messages.)  Why is that?

It seems to go away completely when I fully disable gdm(update-rc.d remove)
and use fvwm.  Before I was only stopping gdm after it already started(I think.)
I'm not sure what's going on.

Reza.

> 
> Reza.
> 





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