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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
