Admittedly not that often, but still many more times than just on fresh install. For example: plugging your computer into the TV/projector to watch a movie. At any rate, it should definitely be there even if you only ever use it once, just on principle of 'clicking a button is nicer than editing an obscure config file'. The obscure config file should of course always be there - oh how many times have I wished for windows to boot in a command line mode - but for simple stuff like changing display properties a GUI is always nicer than a config file. Not everyone can type at 60wpm you know. Quoting Gavin Denby <redhat(a)ihug.co.nz>:
An aside, how often do people really change gui resolutions ?? even in mac/windows ?? I tried to think when i last did it and it was when I changed the monitor here about a year ago, and I use a linux desktop daily. On my windows laptop I did it to allow a VCR hookup to a laptop to record a powerpoint screen, but in normal life ?????
If this were in an installer I could understand, but do we really need these sorts of tools on the desktop ??
OK i'll go back to hacking sax2 now to try and get it working with x-org on slackware 10.1 (which explains why I am asking this sort of question) unless redhat have hacked xconfigurator to work with X-org. ( I see fedora has switched over)
Has yoper fixed sax2 with x-org yet ?, I see x-org in now in their dev tree.
Gavin.
On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Daniel Lawson wrote:
for example, any method of even changing screen resolution or refresh rate--traditionally a rather weak point with Linux guis, but one which is important in my opinion since 1280x1024 at 60 Hz is horrible, and I don't want to have to mess about in XFree86.conf just to change something like that.
"traditionally weak" is an understatement. Until recently, there was no way at all of doing this within the GUI.
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