Xorg error messages are poor.

[Scott Bronson]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 17:03 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:44:44AM -0500, Scott Bronson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 11:22 +0300, Sandis Neilands wrote:
> > > > It might break your expected behavior but it would fix the expected
> > > > behavior for a lot of other people.  Everything is a compromise.
> > > Is the terminal the place where newbies look for help now?
> > 
> > We're discussing X breaking, remember?
> 
> If X is broken, then running yelp isn't expected behaviour under any 
> circumstances.

Who's running Yelp?

I was suggesting aliasing "help" to print a helpful message telling the
clueless user what he could do.  Just off the top of my head:

$ help
If you'd like to start the windowing system, type:
    /etc/init.d/gdm restart
If the windowing system doesn't appear to work, you can try
re-configuring it:
    dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
If you want to find out more on how to use the command line:
    man man

Is there any manpage that gives an introduction to the command line?

    - Scott