Intrepid. Desktop flashing on and off after login

[Derek Broughton]

Jonas Norlander wrote:

> 2008/11/11 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> So GDM is using a valid mode (I've seen people complaining that
>> GDM/KDM weren't using the same screen size as their desktop, so that
>> doesn't surprise me).
>>
> 
> Thats strange. Why would KDM/GDM override your setting in xorg.conf
> and why should it change after you log in? If the X server is started
> by KDM or with startx or xinit or just X they all use the same
> xorg.conf. Do you have any more info regarding thous having that
> problems?

No, because it's never been an issue for me, but it's not a matter aiui of 
overriding X - it's just that if X has e.g. 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 
screen sizes defined, then it's possible to set the default size for the login 
manager to be different from the desktop.

In this case, then, Gnome may be trying to get a mode that isn't working 
correctly, even though GDM has a valid mode.  I _would_ have expected 
Gnome to try to cycle through all of them until it found the one GDM is 
using, though.
-- 
derek