Quoting Harald Arnesen (har...@skogtun.org): > >> 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.
At the very latest by RHL7, which was released in 1994. Red Hat's easy/GUI X configuration tool was called Xconfigurator.[1] I vaguely recall that SUSE and Debian, among many others, had various other ones with a variety of names. (This having been in the early/mid 1990s, it was of course for XFree86, not Xorg.) If you started using Linux in 1991-1993, then, sure, distributions then did _not_ include even-easier X configurator tools, and you would have a very peculiar yet technically valid edge-case point, for which, here, have a cookie. ;-> But then, if you are indeed as old an old-timer as I am, I'm extremely surprised you are not fully aware of when this changed. But, anyway: If you wish to go install a bunch of ancient Linux distros and report back, have fun! [1] See, e.g., ftp://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/redhat/redhat7/rhl-aig-en-7.0/s1-guimode-xconf.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
