Rick Moen [2017-08-23 19:06]: > Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > >> Not having to login as root to manually configure Xorg just to change >> video card or monitor was one of the best and most wanted improvements in >> Linux in the past 10 years. > I'm sure, but on the other hand, how often did that happen? Extremely > seldom.
Always. >> Manual Xorg configuration is so tedious, time consuming and error >> prone that requiring users to be capable of it is just crazy. > Au contraire: Even if you had nothing besides Xorg (or previously > XFree86) itself, in almost all cases you could just do 'Xorg -configure >> /etc/X11/Xorg.conf' and nothing else. However, pretty nearly all > distributions provided even-easier X configurator tools. When? Not when I started using Linux. -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
