Wide Screen not supported? Gnome looks bad, is unusable.

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 23:23 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> >
> > My contempt for the mental processes of the X designers rose to new
> > levels when I discovered that all you have to do is cut & paste numbers
> > it already knows and prints in the log into the right columns in a 
> > ModeLine
> > directive. Why X can't do this automatically is beyond my 
> > comprehension :-).
> 
> It's open source -- you're free to write the missing code.

I'm also free to marvel at the inability of X to use the information
it obtains from the monitor to automatically create the optimal
display mode :-).