On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:

> I don't use this thingie, so I thought better to let others have a turn.
>
> It occurs to me that 1) you can create a second user; thus, 2) you ought to
> have created a new config file, somewhere, with new settings - probably one
> of those -rc files.

yeah, I created a new user, which works fine (and solved some font 
size problems I still had).

> Maybe it's hiding in another location? in /opt, or your home folder, where
> Trinity also keeps config files? Maybe it's in the second user's home folder?

got advice to grep around for 'color' and such in config files and 
a member of another list proposed an interesting experiment:

> 1) check you have a bash prompt available somewhere, eg a VC.
> 2) make some change with xrandr (any change).
> 3) save the configuration.
> 4) run the line:  find ~ -type f -mmin -3

I'll try this tomorrow.

> If so, then you ought to be able to make a backup copy of the *working* config
> file. Copy it elsewhere (to another folder or wherever, for purposes of
> self-hacking). It goes without saying, that one ought to make backups of
> everything now and then; but especially any such files, which are to be used
> for these experiments in self-abuse.
>
> Then, maybe you can adapt the settings that actually work, just by changing
> the relevant details. Use it to overwrite the problematic configuration file
> (... assuming, of course, that there is such a config file).
>

yeah, if I get hold of the responsible config file I'll likely see the 
way through.

f.

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Felmon Davis

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