xinerama and gdm

Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Sat Apr 10 13:34:06 UTC 2004


Le sam, 10/04/2004 à 04:15 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit :

> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:22:30PM -1000, Warren Togami 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".
> 
> Well, that's a pretty good reason. :)

It's very fun to reconfigure gdm every other day when one syncs on
rawhide (I hate not-24h format)

I'd rather redhat changed the conf file name every single time the
syntax morphed.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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