[openbox] Possible bug with screen dimensions?

Chris Anderson chris at dersoldat.org
Wed Jul 23 13:10:24 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:01, Ben Jansens wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:44:05AM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote:
> > Both my home and work system are set to use 24 bit color depth and a
> > 1600x1200 resolution and both have been running Gnome 2.2 (I switched
> > off OB2 briefly). At home I thought something seemed odd about my screen
> > when I switched to Openbox3 but I couldn't quite place it. The same
> > thing happened here at work so I checked xdpyinfo and sure enough my
> > screen is only running at 1280x1024 with 24bit color. This seems to be
> > the same problem occuring at home. Any ideas as to why Openbox3 seems to
> > be causing this (color and resolution are fine in Gnome)?
> 
> Openbox does not set your screen resolution. Set this up in your XF86Config
> file. Perhaps GNOME changes the resolution with the XRandR extension, but
> Openbox does not.
> 
> Ben

My point is that it IS configured correctly in XFConfig. I can go start
X with just an empty session and no Desktop Enviroment / Window Manager
and it runs at 1600x1200. Gnome also runs at 1600x1200. Openbox is the
only one that doesn't. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

-Chris




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