[TriLUG] Monitors - Was (GDM Woes)

[William Gomeringer]

Well, I finally fixed the problem. I just did a fresh install of Debian
and followed the directions exactly on the Gnome page for installing on
Sid. The fonts look beautiful and there are more than 5 :) My next
problem has to with GDM and multiple monitors. Whenever I log out of
Gnome, GDM will freeze when using Xinerama. I can't switch between
terminals or Ctrl-Alt-Del. I have to telnet in to the machine and Kill
X, which is at 99.9% in top. Any ideas what could be wrong here?


On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 16:12, William Gomeringer wrote:
> I shut down GDM and started up x with startx. No change, but I am
> strting to realize that the only time I have more than 5 fonts available
> in the gnome-font-properties is when I use KDM, but no AA. So I get 5 AA
> fonts when I use startx, GDM, or whatever. Thanks
> 
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:00, John Matthews wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 13:41, William Gomeringer wrote:
> > > Thanks for the information. I followed the article word for word, still
> > > no AA fonts. What is the simplest way to do this, what are the
> > > essentials that need to be in place to ensure that AA fonts work? Maybe
> > > I have "overdone" it and added GDK_USE_XFT="1" to too many files, too
> > > much crud. Maybe I need to start over.
> > 
> > I'd ask if you shut down GDM and start up your desktop with startx does
> > it give you the right thing? You might need to set your XSESSION
> > variable to get the desktop env. you wanted.
> > 
> > I'm just wondering if the login part has anything to do with it, or if
> > perhaps it's at the level of the font server or X server.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > matt
> > 
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