Xorg error messages are poor.

[Nicholas Battaglia]

Please let us forget Yelp for now and get back on topic.

Read the original message again before you respond.


On 3/31/06, Scott Bronson <bronson at rinspin.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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