On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > >> > I personally don't see any alternative to overcome
> > >> > the current problems of XFree.
> > >>
> > >> I don't see real problems in XFree, and think that one of the best
> > >> features of X is the networking capabilities. Indeed, have a look to
> > how
> > >> easy is to have xinerama on two different video cards. Do this with
> > >> windows or macos. It's hard, if not impossible at all.
> > >
> > >Is that a joke ? Did you ever try to set up a second gfx card and
> > >monitor under Mac OS ? It's a breeze, just point'n'click. Whereas in
> > X,
> > >you have to hunt for the Xinerama HOWTO and mess with the config
> > file.
> >
> > xf86cfg has multihead configuration built in, although it isn't
> > what I personally consider user friendly. This is something that
> > will become more friendly in the future though as multihead
> > becomes much more popular.
>
> :-)
>
> I wan't to stop someday and write code for a better multihead configuration
> interface in the textmode (currently it just adds new screens to the left of
> the last one). For the graphics interface, I plan to write a wizard mode,
> similar to the text interface. And also, make this wizard mode allow configuring
> everything without the need of a working mouse; curently if the mouse does
> not work, it is required to use xkb mousekeys, and this really is not user
> friendly :-)
>
> Anyway, the code is there, and I don't mind if someone uses part (or all) of
> the xf86cfg code in a Gtk or Kde interface. I just think that any such code
> should use libxf86config, so that if it reads an existing XF86Config file,
> when writing a new one, does not miss any information from the previous
> configuration file (in the current libxf86config, comments may be rewritten out
> of order, but are not lost).
redhat-config-xfree86 uses libxf86config, or rather a python wrapper for
it.
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