On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:36:31 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I'm not sure that's the right place for it. You need root permissions to > modify /etc/X11/XF86Config. Putting it there does not make sense on Linux. >
Don't think in such a linear fashion, Shlomi. Just because there is a menu item or desktop icon for an action, doesn't mean you can't ask the user for the root password when she chooses it. For example, on my panel I have icons for several apps, one of which is Synaptic. When I click on it, I get a dialog asking me for the root password. Why does that make sense, but an right-click menu item for changing the X color depth does not? > > I meant that I don't dislike this fact. I mean that I was never bothered by > the fact that I could not change the colour depth at X-Windows' run-time. > It doesn't really bother me, either (well, not a lot). It *does* bother me that at least for the distribution I use, there seems to be no easy, graphical way to change this. > Should be easy using XFdrake or mcc or xf86config or whatever. I don't know > what is available on Mepis. xf86config is a command-line tool, and anyway its man page says that it is used to "generate an XF86Config file". I wanted to edit an existing one, not generate a new one. I guess there is no GUI tool for this on Mepis, at least non that I could find. -- Offer Kaye ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
