[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 96dpi driving me mad

Al Bates d2a at lineone.net
Sat Oct 5 13:35:41 UTC 2013


turns out it may be being forced by gsettings

gsettings list-recursively | grep 96

reveals a setting:

com.canonical.unity-greeter xft-dpi 96.0

which may be the issue? not sure i can just remove the setting to force it to respect the xorg conf though...

On 5 Oct 2013, at 11:24, Al Bates wrote:

> I am running 0.26 mythbuntu.
> 
> I recently updated my system (including nvidia drivers) and one of the updates has left me with a fixed 96dpi and i can't find anywhere to override it
> 
> I've commented out the dpi from the lightdm conf files - /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
> /etc/lightdm/mythbuntu-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf etc.
> 
> grep -i dpi /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> is reporting NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (35, 48); computed from "DisplaySize" Monitor
> 
> which is set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> but when i run
> 
> xdpyinfo | grep resolution
> 
> it returns
> 
> resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
> 
> aargh!
> 
> i can force the resolution to change by running
> 
> xrandr --fbmm 736x406 && xdpyinfo | grep resolution
> 
> which results in:
> 
> resolution:    35x48 dots per inch
> 
> but what is forcing the 96dpi override in the first place?
> 
> thanks for any help



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