On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:20:53AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Attempted to clarify things in r6143. Archaic, would you let me know > if it seems clearer to you now?
I'll just re-review the page. Some of this is not relevant to your specific reply: --- First paragraph: Swap the replaceable </usr/X11R6> with <PREFIX> in 3 places. --- Vert/Horiz bulleted item should add "refer to monitor manufacturer's doco for this info" --- Control+Alt+Backspace is *really* bold and big. Is this intentional? --- "As a convenience, Xorg-7.1 users should populate the /etc/X11 directory with symlinks to various configuration directories that were located in /etc/X11 with previous versions of Xorg." What convenience? Is this for non-xorg packages? Cause xorg itself knows exactly where to look. I really don't know, so I'm just throwing it out there. If it's for compatability with non-xorg packages, then perhaps we should either a) change the sysconfdir while building xorg, or b) fix the non-xorg pacakges to look in the rigth place. But then, I'm not a big fan of compatability symlinks. --- "As the root user, create .xinitrc:" ISTM that we should be creating a global file (or modifying the one installed) and instruct that it can be over-ridden by a local file. Also, root should not run X after the testing phase, so root probably shouldn't even have local X config files. --- "When needed, the X Window System creates the directory /tmp/.ICE-unix if it does not exist." Should probably mention that this directory is properly created when root runs startx, and that the createfiles thing is for anytime there is a reboot. --- DRI: A link to supported video cards would be good. http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/dri_driver_features.phtml --- "Xft provides antialiased font rendering through Freetype, and fonts are controlled from the client side using Fontconfig." By client-side, do you mean local clients or all clients? --- Firefly New Sung font vs. Arphic fonts. If firefly is better, and if it covers everything Arphic does, why would anyone want to install the latter? If Arphic does cover more, it should mentioned (like freefont vs MS fonts). --- "As an example, consider the installation of the DejaVu fonts." The following commands show how to install the DejaVu fonts. These commands can be used with slight modification for most font packages. --- "In this version of X, non-Latin keyboard layouts do not include Latin configurations as was previous practice." What version of X? --- Alt+Shift is really large and bold. I'm now guessing this is intentional. ;) --- "Using X Resources" This one seems weird. While it is good information, it seems that it either needs much more explanation, or much less. At this point, I cannot tell what the definition of "X client" is and it looks like the book is suggesting that I put "Xcursor.theme: whiteglass" in my .xinitrc or .xsession (and doesn't distinguish what the differences are between those 2 files). I really have no suggestion at this point, but it seems odd when I read it. HTH! -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
