On 2012-02-22 23:52:09 +0000 (+0000), Ian Jackson wrote: > On my netbook I'm running a pretty vanilla install of squeeze, > although my personal desktop session is very different to usual. > > I wanted to add a command-line option to my X server. I spent 15 > mins trawling through docs and grepping for config options with no > luck. [...]
On my netbook I run a very vanilla install of squeeze... base packages only plus the few hand-picked apps I need, usually with recommends omitted. I expect the desktop session on my netbook is unusual as well--using a keyboard-driven window manager mainly to multiplex xterms (which in turn are mostly containers for Gnu screen), and to be able to specify window geometry and placement since more recent apps don't implement the traditional X11 command-line switches to do that any more. Maybe I don't use enough of the whiz-bang graphicky features lots of people want, but I find logging into a vty and launching startx, just like I have for decades, to work just fine. I'm certainly not going to begrudge others their pointy-clicky fanciness, but I also don't expect it to be particularly more stable or tunable than other operating systems where that sort of interface is de rigueur. Point being, xinit and friends still work just fine, at least on my netbooks, workstations, et cetera. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120223134205.go...@yuggoth.org