Rick Moen [2017-08-23 23:32]: > 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.
Red Hat 7 was released in 2000, according to Wikipedia. I remember using Red Hat 3.0.3 in 1996 and 4.2 (the last using libc5) for a time in 1997-98. They had an X configuration tool that didn't work for me. They also shipped the Metro-X server, which also didn't work on my machine. -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
