[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 96dpi driving me mad

[Al Bates]

ignore that - changed it to another value and system still restarts with 96x96 dpi

On 5 Oct 2013, at 14:35, Al Bates wrote:

> 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
>