xinerama and gdm

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sat Apr 10 05:22:30 UTC 2004


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:38:41PM -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote:
> 
>>Is there a better way to turn on xinerama than to add +xinerama into the 
>>gdm.conf file?  It gets overwritten every time gdm is upgraded.  Is 
>>there a particularly good reason xinerama is off by default?
> 
> 
> Or a reason gdm.conf isn't marked "noreplace"?
> 

In the past the file format has changed in incompatible ways, I was told 
as the reason.  Complain upstream if you want to change this decision. 
Get them to say "the config file will not change in incompatible ways".

Warren





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