On 22/08/2017 at 02:01, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Adam Borowski (kilobyte@???):
>
>> Manually creating the configuration -- or even manually triggering its
>> creation -- is a pretty bad idea. It just guarantees you won't have
>> working X when you make any change to your hardware -- and sometimes
>> software as well.
>
> Gosh, what you call a bad idea was utterly routine and what everyone was
> used to for decades. You simply knew that, if you changed your video
> chipset or changed to a radically different pointing device, or if you
> wanted to do something very different like Xinerama, you'd need to
> generate a new one.

Not having to login as root to manually configure Xorg just to change
video card or monitor was one of the best and most wanted improvements in
Linux in the past 10 years. Manual Xorg configuration is so tedious, time
consuming and error prone that requiring users to be capable of it is just
crazy.


Alessandro