I seem to have sparked a little interest with my comments on X
configuration. That's good. We need to generate more interest on this
list.
I'd like to summarize what I think are the issues and continue to refine
them so we can put something useful in the book. As an alternative, we
can also put info into the wiki. I note that we already have a
substantial amount of related info in the wiki about Fonts, Input
Methods, and Display and Monitor Sections. (Thanks Alex.)
Here are the new areas that are candidates:
AIGLX - Acclerated Indirect GL for X
xorg.conf
-- Don't load GLcore explicitly
-- Enable Composite/Damage extensions
Additional Utiliities
-- xcompmgr
-- transset (I can't find the source to this outside of svn)
Use of DPMS by X
-- acpid (When to use and not to use)
Other areas that should be considered:
What do each of the X extensions do
-- e.g. Why would I want to load that
Sor far, the best references I've found are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System_protocols_and_architecture#Extensions
and http://people.freedesktop.org/~jg/roadmap.html
Interaction between some drivers and extensions
-- e.g. nv and nvidia drivers vs dri and glx extensions
Invocation options
-- Turning off networking
I'm not proposing a major addition to the book in any of the above
areas, but would like to consider a paragraph or two for each, possibly
with links to more information.
What do y'all think? Do you have any suggested topics or reasons for
leaving something out? Any suggested wording?
-- Bruce
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