is xorg.conf still needed

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:19 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > *) Profit :-)
> 
> That means automagical dual-head just works, a way to choose Xinerama, and
> a way to set the "my second head is 1050 lines high and its bottom line is
> the one adjacent to the bottom line of the 1200-line first head" magic
> knobs, right?
> 
> Oh yeah, and to set DontZap before two weeks go by to disseminate a good
> quarter of my brain into various volatile bits of the session and then I
> type C-something M-DEL too quickly and fly into that particular biannual
> homicidal rage.
> 
> Some or all of those things seem ideal to actually live in user desktop
> configuration hooey of some sort instead of static system-wide X server
> setup, so maybe the glorious road leads in that direction?

In fact, yes, yes it does.  See the new gnome-display-properties in F9
for some of the bits of user-configured dual-head magic.  Thanks to ssp
for doing the hard work there.

Jeremy