On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, David Dawes wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:10:08PM +0200, Alexander Stohr wrote:
> >I understand your point.
> >I would like to have the administrator to have a set of "known good"
> >resolutions and setups between the user can select its desires.
> 
> It's already possible to put multiple configurations in the XF86Config
> file, and select which one you want via an X server command line
> option (see the "-layout" option in the XFree86(1) man page).  This
> allows what you're suggesting without having to re-edit the config
> file all the time.

I once saw the suggestion of creating special users with login shell
an su-root program which changes the config file (probably the XDM
config file, but it could be /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) and restarts the
X server (or xdm). If I want a big screen I log in as "bigscreen"
then log in again as me. If my mother wants large text she first logs in 
as "bigletters" ...

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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