No system-config-display, so what now?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:45:28 +0530
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> system-config-display is a bandaid from the time when XFree86 was 
>> stagnating badly but now that Xorg is going rapid development, it makes 
>> sense to fix the underlying issues instead.
> 
> There are some underlying issues that are a matter of user preference
> which couldn't possibly be automated - I hope something comes down the
> pike to allow those to be configured easily instead of constantly making
> it hard and hard to configure them as has been the current direction.

User preferences can still be stored but system-config-display isn't 
being used for this much if at all and most of the usage happens to be 
workarounds which we would, do without.

> Some examples:
> 
> I use a trackball and want to configure one of the buttons as
> draglock (so I don't need three hands to drag things

system-config-display isn't useful here.

> People with multiple monitors need to be able to say if they
> want separate desktops, or one big virtual desktop (and if
> a big virtual one, how are the monitors physically arranged).

This is more often a per user setting, stored elsewhere rather than in 
xorg.conf and that happens to be true with many of the customizations as 
well. At any rate, you don't need a default xorg.conf in these cases and 
only need them created if you do a specfic system-wide customization. I 
was referring more about the default instance.

Rahul