Orphaned package: system-config-display

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:59 +0200
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > Static configuration should be something you can do from the dynamic
> > configuration tool.  gnome-display-properties should have a "set as
> > default" button.
> 
> Uh…
> 1. Not everyone uses GNOME.

Very true. I would expect people who don't like tinkering with
xorg.conf files would run a DE that does have a display settings applet
though, no?

> 2. What about systemwide settings? (system-config-display did those.)

What system wide settings?

> 3. What if you can't bring up X in the first place? (You can't run
> gnome- display-properties if you can't get into X.
> system-config-display --reconfig was a way to fix such problems.)

Xorg -configure
will get you a xorg.conf that should be pretty much the same as the one
that system-config-display --reconfig got you. 

If you do see a need for this tool, then feel free to take over
development and maintainership of it as Adam asked in the first post in
the thread. 

kevin
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