On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >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).
Our current tool under development is using libxf86config exactly for the reasons you suggest. ;o) It made no sense to reinvent the wheel. Those wishing to try the tool out, and comment about it, please do! redhat-config-xfree86 is the name of the tool/package and it is currently in rawhide. It is written in python/C and uses GTK+. All feedback and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to see the tool enhanced over time to be a very user friendly tool for both GNOME and KDE users, and potentially users not using GNOME or KDE as well. Any requests for enhancement, etc. should be filed in bugzilla preferably also. Thanks for libxf86config! -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
