We could consider using the dislayconfig module from guidance for the editing of the xorg.conf file. It seems to do a reasonable job to edit a xorg.conf file without overwriting users customizations. Its python and used in kde-guidance as their default xorg configuration tools since dapper (maybe even before).
-- Warn and ask before clobbering manually edited xorg.conf https://launchpad.net/bugs/92690 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
