On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 14:02 -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: > tim hall wrote: > > Yuck. My xorg.conf had been working perfectly for years*, until I > > decided to move the cards about in their slots (in order to troubleshoot > > a completely different problem). Now I discover that I have to learn how > > to use some new configuration application, which doesn't appear to be > > intelligent enough to use my (still valid and usable) old settings or > > allow me to manually override it. I'm not a fan of user-friendliness > > that dis-empowers the user, I would save up and buy a Mac if I wanted > > that! Grumble, moan ... > > I felt the same at first. Once I understood how it works I am now a big > fan. Being able to change to Xorg settings on the fly, adding, > changing, and re-orientating displays on the fly like every other OS is > also a good thing. No more of the edit/restart X dance for me. When > things go wrong I can still ssh in and fix things, now without having to > restart X. > > I am not a fan of dumbing things down for the mythical "average user", > but this is a case of legitimate progress that happens to make point and > click configuration possible. Change is almost always uncomfortable but > it is not always bad :)
Yes, I don't like change much. Having looked at the docs briefly, I'll experiment with it later and see what I can achieve. If as you say, it's a legitimate process, I too will probably come to swear by it. ;-) > What I am trying to say is that there is less of a need these days on > complete how-to guides for configuring X. It would still be useful to > document those edge cases but since I don't have any of that hardware I > am pretty useless for this task. Yep, I wasn't suggesting a complete Howto. Just a user-friendly introduction to the subject with pointers. The official docs are a little austere. We can only really document edge cases as they come up. cheers, tim _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
