Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-19 Thread John Hasler
Herbert Xu writes: > Sure, the user should be able to customise things if they want to. But > if you don't have a pretty default, people will simply say that Debian > looks ugly! First make it work. Then make it work right. Then make it work really well. Then, if you have time and it doesn't br

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-18 Thread Stephen Pitts
If you want the login screen to look pretty, just grab a copy of XBanner from http://chaos.fullerton.edu , the XBanner home page. A Debian package is available. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 on an Intel Pentium 150 Send a

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Stephen Early wrote: > > One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it > provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I > don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other > distributions have tried this, and it occasionally causes confusion

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-15 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it > provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I > don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other > distributions have tried this, and it occasional

XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-15 Thread Stephen Early
Bill Bumgarner writes: > 1) XF86Setup doesn't provide for resolutions beyond 1280x1024 [though it > does a nice job of ensuring that the server chooses the HIGHEST available > resolution]. Resolutions beyond 1280x1024 are not yet a common case. I suspect that most people using higher resolution

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-14 Thread Bill Bumgarner
MAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Bill Bumgarner wrote: > I grabbed the XFree86 3.2 packages from mas