I've documented this at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config.
A mention in the release notes sounds wise as well, although it's too late for 8.04, but we could put a note into 8.04.1. I wasn't even certain the feature would be available (and functional) in time for the release, so we didn't advertise it in the release notes. However, I'm betting most people won't look at release notes. An alternate solution would be to check the current Virtual size in the applet when setting dual screen modes; I think this can be done entirely with just libXrandr calls in C. Then, if the selected size would exceed the current maximum Virtual size, it should display a warning dialog to the user mentioning the need to edit xorg.conf to make that setting. An even better solution would be to include something to edit the xorg.conf for them automagically, however given the wide amount of variations in xorg.conf's out in the wild, I would worry that such a "feature" could end up causing a lot of damage. Plus, the effort would be a waste since for Intrepid the need for specifying Virtual should go away entirely. So I am not going to attempt to do this auto-editing, but if anyone else has a moment of brilliance and comes up with a stunning (and lo-risk) patch, I'd be very interested. -- [Hardy] Xinerama no longer used but the replacement is not obvious! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
