Graphical Xorg configuration Application

[Simon Edwards]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:08, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Simon Edwards napisał(a):
> > Kubuntu's new Display system configuration module (kde-guidance package) 
does 
> > this and also supports multi-head configurations, and avoids red-herrings 
> > such as "being written in portable language like C/C++", or "having 
frontend 
> > and backends" or "having wrappers for langauge X, Y and Z".
> > 
> > It is written in Python + KDE/Qt. Redoing the GUI part using PyGTK is 
> > certianly possible. It just needs someone to get in there and do the work
> > for the GNOME port.
> Yes, but it has one big drawback. To configure X server... you need X
> server.
> AFAIK Sax2 works also in text mode. So if for any reason X server does
> not start, it can be used to configure it in some other way.

True. Guidance assumes that the xorg.conf created at installation time is good 
enough to get some kind of X server running, even if it is sub-optimal. 
Adding a text mode interface is also a possibility, although I prefer the 
stretegy of getting the X server in the air first and then just using the X 
interface.

The other main differences with SAX are 1) it already runs on the Ubuntu, 2) 
it is being actively developed, 3) the code is written in Ubuntu's preferred 
development language (much easier for people to quickly hack on).

cheers,

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