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. > 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. Many long years ago during the XFree86 era, different chipset necessitated installing individual X server packages, so, if you switched cards, you often needed to not only reconfigure X but also install a new X11 server package. That was burdensome -- but, again, how often do you wake up one morning and say 'I know! I'm going to install a different video card today!' And that bit was ages ago. Perspective, not just a dictionary word. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
