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Re: [trinity-users] I may have spoken too soon . . .

From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:37:17 -0400
dep composed on 2018-06-28 13:25 (UTC-0400):

> Last night we had one of our twice- or three-times-weekly electrical
> blackouts and, while the gadgets are all on uninterruptible power supplies I
> shut them down before the juice was gone from the backups. When this morning
> I rebooted the GPD Pocket, it went to the TDM login screen, where the spaces
> for entering username and password were small but the fonts for typing them
> in were huge. Nevertheless, I was able to log in and, instead of the pristine
> TDE desktop I'd enjoyed at shutdown, I had one where Kicker and so on were
> the size I had set, but again the fonts -- in the calendar, in names below
> icons, and in menus, were enormous.

> My sense is that something upstream of TDM is doing this. The Ubuntu install
> defaults to Unity and lightdm. When I installed the two big TDE packages I
> set TDM as the default. But of course I'd had to run Unity in order to
> install TDE.

> My first thought is to purge Unity and lightdm, but it might be that this
> won't solve the problem, and that someone here who is familiar with the
> macinations of X and such might have a sense of where there's a configuration
> file that is causing this to happen.

> Anybody know?

What are output from

	inxi -G -c0
	xrdb -query | grep dpi
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