I took a look into integrating this today, but on second look I think we
need something more general purpose.
I definitely think there may be a use case for this with users having
removable harddrives, who might need to have non-default settings in
their xorg.conf, but this is a fairly small userbase.
As mentioned before, there are additional use cases that could also
benefit from a hotswappy xorg.conf - input devices like wacom tablets in
particular. However, the patch as it currently stands is detecting HW
changes based on lspci output, which wouldn't catch input device
changes. So we'd need something a bit different here. Perhaps HAL?
As well, the idea of having alternate xorg.conf's needs to be
generalized into an x-kit based library that provides a programmatic API
and a command line tool to select which xorg.conf to boot, and that
performs the switch. The switch could either be done via cp -f as shown
in this patch, or perhaps could be done by passing it in to X via the
-config flag. This functionality would then also be added to the
Bulletproof-X code, to replace the current backup_xorg_conf(), etc.
routines. Tool support for adding/editing/removing xorg.conf's from the
library could also be done.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) => (unassigned)
** Also affects: x-kit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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