Fedora 8 review (OT, Changing X' configuration)

[Gilboa Davara]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 20:19 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 7:44 PM, Jonathan Roberts
> <jonathan.roberts.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Take for example:
> >
> > Distrowatch on Fedora:
> >
> > "Its new artwork team in particular deserves high marks for its work..."
> >
> > and a few comments from the digg story about Fedora 8's artwork:
> >
> > "This **** is great! I want Fedora!"
> >
> > "this is much better than the current hot air balloons, thanks!"
> 
> Let's not forget the moment where I'm standing in front of a class
> about to give a presentation, and I have to reboot because I can't get
> X to recognize the projector without that.  We're waiting for it to
> reboot, and I start telling them stories about how the Fedora Art team
> works, and just keeping people interested until I start the
> presentation.
> 
> Let's see someone using Wintendo do that :P
> 
> -Yaakov
> 

Restart?!?!?!
Shouldn't Zap (Ctrl-Alt-BS) or Logout work?

I can't remember ever having to restart the machine in-order to change
something in X's configuration... (including driver.ko and X.org version
updates)

- Gilboa