wdm

[Colin McDermott]

> Going a little off topic here, but it might be relevant if we go with 
> no display manager.
>
> I just removed gdm and I'm seeing something I've seen before but I'd 
> like verified.
>
> Doing
>
> xdpyinfo | grep resolution
>
> I get 100x100 dots per inch.  Its being forced into 100dpi by this 
> config file:
>
> /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
>
> This file has one line:
>
> exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
>
> If I remove the '-dpi 100' section I get my native res back: 86x84 
> dots per inch.
>
> I mentioned this on the forums once and got no verification, so its 
> driving me a bit nuts. Surely I'm not the only one to be suffering 
> from this??
>

I can post the full guide for doing this. Personally I find that most 
people have one user account for desktop based systems. Btw Xfce dm is 
very annoying. It overrides other Display Managers including GDM. Plus 
you can only run xfce with it. WDM is only a tiny bit heavier then XDM 
but a pain to configure. Plus A shutdown button is really needed (Most 
users I know struggle to shut WDM down).

>
>  
>
>>> As for the weather plugin I am not sure about including that in the
>>> default as it acesses the network.
>>    
>>
>
>And so does a web browser and an email client and an ftp client and a
>bittorrent application and... well, you get my point  ;-) 
>
Though if the poor person is on dialup you just have an annoying feature 
taking up bandwidth. Please no weather icon. Also can we remove ntpdate! 
from startup. I don't think that clock synchronisation is that important 
(if users want it then they should be able to do it from the menu).


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Colin McDermott
Reboot Computer Reuse centre
Ubuntu Lite
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