[LightDM] display mode changing when lightdm launches?

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 00:25:35 UTC 2017


Hi Mickey,

LightDM itself doesn't do any mode changing, what you are probably seeing
is the greeter or session doing this. I suspect you're running
lightdm-gtk-greeter in this case, so if it should be keeping the display
mode you might want to look in there.

--Robert

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 at 22:21 Mickey Lyle <mickeylyle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> Running Xubuntu 17.04.
>
> I have my display mode set through grub KMS, I am not using the default
> for my monitor. When lightdm launches it still does a mode change for some
> reason. It was changing me to my monitor default, but I set up a
> display-setup-script to set the mode back to what I want. And after I log
> in, my display mode is set right by my DE.
>
> My question is, what is causing the mode change to happen when lightdm
> launches? Why isn't it just leaving the mode set by KMS alone? It's silly
> to watch my monitor stumble through a mode change just to go back to the
> mode it was in before.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'm more than happy to provide
> any additional info that may be needed.
>
> Best,
> Mickey
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