Some thoughts

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:01:39AM -0500, Ivan Krstic wrote:

> - Being a dual-head user, configuring the displays properly to actually 
> extend the screen as opposed to simply mirroring it was a nightmare. 
> Scott Remnant was kind enough to share with me his XF86Config; ideally, 
> this would be solved in the future with an applet as opposed to a 
> 120-minute edit conf-restart X-retry sequence.

Ideally, this would be solved by automagically configuring multiple
displays in a reasonable default configuration, and allowing the user to
tweak it with a GUI app.

Unfortunately, these things are not trivial, and I don't know of any work in
progress.  Patches would be gratefully received.

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 - mdz