Quoting "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > I personally don't see any alternative to overcome > >> > the current problems of XFree. > >> > >> I don't see real problems in XFree, and think that one of the best > >> features of X is the networking capabilities. Indeed, have a look to > how > >> easy is to have xinerama on two different video cards. Do this with > >> windows or macos. It's hard, if not impossible at all. > > > >Is that a joke ? Did you ever try to set up a second gfx card and > >monitor under Mac OS ? It's a breeze, just point'n'click. Whereas in > X, > >you have to hunt for the Xinerama HOWTO and mess with the config > file. > > xf86cfg has multihead configuration built in, although it isn't > what I personally consider user friendly. This is something that > will become more friendly in the future though as multihead > becomes much more popular.
:-) I wan't to stop someday and write code for a better multihead configuration interface in the textmode (currently it just adds new screens to the left of the last one). For the graphics interface, I plan to write a wizard mode, similar to the text interface. And also, make this wizard mode allow configuring everything without the need of a working mouse; curently if the mouse does not work, it is required to use xkb mousekeys, and this really is not user friendly :-) Anyway, the code is there, and I don't mind if someone uses part (or all) of the xf86cfg code in a Gtk or Kde interface. I just think that any such code should use libxf86config, so that if it reads an existing XF86Config file, when writing a new one, does not miss any information from the previous configuration file (in the current libxf86config, comments may be rewritten out of order, but are not lost). > -- > Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: > OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, > XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 > Red Hat Inc. > http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Paulo _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
