xinerama and gdm

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Apr 10 08:15:27 UTC 2004


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. :)

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