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. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.