[Bio-linux-dev] Bio-Linux 8 ready for Beta-testing

[Booth, Timothy G.]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the comments.  I'm glad that aptitude is now happy.  You may yet earn back the beer with your testing efforts so I won't place my order just yet. :-)

I'll plug an external monitor into my laptop tomorrow and see what I can see.  I have a "pristine" 14.04 system for comparison, so if the problem exists on that it will be safe to assume there is an open bug somewhere.  If not, I'll try and work out what I stuffed up.

Regarding the MATE desktop DPI settings, can you tell me what I need to modify in my package to make that happen?

Cheers,

TIM
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From: Tony Travis [tony.travis at abdn.ac.uk]
Sent: 01 July 2014 13:38
To: bio-linux-dev at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Bio-linux-dev] Bio-Linux 8 ready for Beta-testing

On 30/06/14 15:59, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 30/06/14 15:17, Tim Booth wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I also noticed that on the 'greeter' screen the (dotted) version of the
>>> current desktop wallpaper is not stretched or zoomed to fill the screen
>>> as it was before on a 1600x900 external monitor connected to my laptop.
>>
>> No idea what I need to do to fix this.  I'll see if I can reproduce the
>> problem.  Yes, I do want to make the system make a good impression if I
>> can.
>
> Hi, Tim.
>
> The problem only seems to happen when booting: If I just logout/in, the
> greeter doesn't have the BL desktop wallpaper - Just the default one...

Hi, Tim.

Same problem on the lock screen - This only happens if you use an
external monitor on a laptop, but it didn't happen on the same laptop
and external monitor under BL7.

I've been trying out the x2go 'MATE' desktop, which works well, but I
think might be improved if you change the default 96dpi font rendering
resolution to 106dpi. The bold fonts don't work very well at 96dpi. The
appearance of text on the MATE desktop at 106dpi is similar to text on
the default Unity desktop. The 96dpi font rendering resolution is for
1024x768 monitors, but has been adopted as a default for X11. I also
changed the font rendering to use "Subpixel smoothing (LCD's)". Tested
remote MATE sessions on my work desktop workstation "wildcat" via the
LAN and on my workstation "minke" at home via ADSL.

BTW, I owe you a beer: Your "aptitude keep-all" fixed the post-install
problems on "minke", so I've now upgraded three machines successfully.

Bye,

  Tony.

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