Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:10:13 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> Subject: Re: X looks strange after restarting it Message-ID: <471D5805.8060902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <471CEA52.4050804@gahr.ch> References: <471CEA52.4050804@gahr.ch>
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Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hi list, > I don't actually know how to explain this problem in an understandable > way... > I have an external 24' Sun monitor running at 1280x800 plugged into my > laptop (1280X800). > I start X without the external monitor, I plug it in, and press the keys > combination to enable it on my laptop. Everything looks fine on it. > Then, I exit X, restart it, and some applications looks differently. > Please look at [1] and [2] for partial screenshots before and after > restarting X, at [3] for my xorg.conf and at [4] for my Xorg.0.log > > Any ideas? > > Thanks very much! > > [1] http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/misc/before.png > [2] http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/misc/after.png > [3] http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/misc/xorg.conf > [4] http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/misc/Xorg.0.log > > P.S. x11@ please CC me > Pietro, I have seen this behavior typically occur when gnome-settings-daemon doesn't shut down properly from my previous session, before I start up GNOME again. In addition, this is how all of my GNOME apps look when I try running them without gnome-settings-daemon. I suspect that when you X server restarted, your apps were not able to contact gnome-settings-daemon over DBUS and defaulted their fonts/rendering. Try this: 1) Start X.org again, after a fresh reboot 2) Exit X.org 3) Use ps auxww to see if there are any gnome related programs still running 4) Kill them all (a good trick I use is to log in as 'root' in another VT, and "killall -9 -u myusername") 5) Log in as your user again and try starting X.org (and the fonts should look like [1]) -- Coleman Kane
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