Okay, one step further: it is not the Gnome integration. I have created a new user on my desktop, new HOME, of course, by default. After reboot, I find an almost identical set of problems for that new user (again: nv_103):
The virtual desktop remains 1600x1200, and the gdm applet is placed in the upper left corner. With a screen of 1024x768 this is just ugly. (But not user dependent). After login as that freshly created user, the situation prevails: The screen is 1024x768 on a canvas of 1600x1200. Silly, as well, the panel is located 2/3 down on that canvas, and ends at 2/3 (both roughly) of the horizontal canvas width. This is just a non-starter, nobody would ever want *that*. So you can use the mouse to navigate above and below the panel, as well as to its right. :) Less funny: the "Meta mode 2 of screen 0 is the same as Meta mode ..." remains. Better: props up as well. And here are no stale Gnome-settings that one could blame! The Auto fix also brings up the usual choice of resolutions, including 1600x1200. And, as usual, selecting 1600x1200 brings up 1280x1024 instead, alas, on a changed canvas size of also 1280x1024! Commanding 1600x1200 for the second time, as usual, brings up this resolution on an equally sized canvas. The only 'improvement': I have never seen the panel crash as I used to. Reboot, and re-logon, of course, brings up the same situation. By now I take a bet that everyone with a great monitor and an xorg.conf like mine can see all the same crap going about, as soon as the monitor detection (EDID) is disabled. Because the new user on an nv103 will not experience anything different from my freshly added user; provided the same xorg.conf is used. Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
