The Wanderer wrote: > I understand this to mean: "there is a known way to achieve what I want > by editing xorg.conf, but I want a solution which can be configured and > adjusted by an ordinary user, and thus a solution which requires that > the user have permissions to edit xorg.conf is not viable". > > Personally, I suspect that the answer is that no solution which > satisfies the specified criteria exists; it wouldn't even surprise me if > one can't be created, at least not without the intermediary of a suid > binary (and I'm not fully clear on what such a binary would do). But for > all I know there might be something, and I'm not interested in provoking > flames, so I've kept quiet.
"without root permissions to edit xorg.conf" is contradiction in itself as the file (if it exists) is r/w only by root, so you can not edit xorg.conf without root permissions. What should I say more?!