(note: this message was originally just sent to petter, but i am forwarding it to the BTS at his request...) > > it would be useful if xdebconfigurator provided a configuration file > > and/or commandline options with which you could over-write the > > detected and default values for some settings. > > > > ability to set the default color depth, modes used, mouse protocol > > and device are the main options that would seem most useful off the > > top of my head, but i'm sure there are others... > You are looking in the wrong location, I believe. The only thing > xdebconfigurator is doing, is passing values into dexconf (from the > xfree86 packages). dexconf then generate the XF86Config file. as i understand it, xdebconfigurator sets values in the debconf database rather than passing them to dexconf ... am i wrong? > To solve your issue, I recommend first running xdebconfigurator once, > and then run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. Do not run > xdebconfigurator again after this, as it will overwrite the values you > set manually using 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. the description of the package suggests that xdebconfigurator should be able to be used non-interactively. using dpkg-reconfigure sounds very interactive... i am attempting to use it to autoconfigure X on lessdisks terminals- so having to run dpkg-reconfigure is not an option. when run on a debconf database without any xserver-xfree86 debconf questions, xdebconfigurator appears to populate the debconf database with some 25 debconf values... including several of the ones i mentioned above. my perl is not so good, but it appears to set a number of default values including default_depth (some code appears to set it to 16) and modes if they aren't already set... at the moment, i basically do a workaround to change some defaults using debconf-set-selections after running xdebconfigurator, but it would be faster if xdebconfigurator could read a configuration file and use those defaults instead of it's own built-in hard-coded defaults. does this make sense? am i a fool? :) live well, vagrant p.s. commandline options to also override configuration file defaults would also be nice, as long as i'm wishing for things.
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