Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr> writes: > OoO Pendant le repas du samedi 16 août 2003, vers 19:26, Xavier > Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> disait: > > > Let me explain why I don't considerate it as the *ideal* > > solution. I honestly think the layout of the X server should be > > chosen before I launch my X session that is to say one have to > > install a program that is aware of the current situation and choose > > according to it what to do with my X session. > > I don't know how a program could be aware of what you would like to > do. You may want a cloned display for a presentation or a dual headed > display for work and I don't know if any USB mind reader is > compatible with Linux ! ;-) No ;) I wanted to say there are out there tools able to detect how things should be. Let's say at home you use a static IP and at work you use DHCP. THere are tools able to know what to do according to such settings. It is called schemes IIRC. So if the daemon detect you don't have the correct static IP, it choose another configuration. > > > So I think, having to restart my GDM just to switch my X layout is > > painfull and make my productivity going down ;) > > Personally, my laptop is never shut down, so I have to restart X > whatever I do when I change the configuration. :) Mine is suspended quite often and at each resume the situation depending of my environment can be different. For e.g, every morning I suspend my laptop wich was connected to a wireless network. When I resume it (into the train) it doesn't have network connection. Then I reconnect it at work using the DHCP server. So in less of 3 hours, my laptop is submitted to 3 different situations and so forth, to 3 configurations. > > To your program, I 'd rather use dedicated program that just deals > > well with laptop. I want to talk of the laptop-net software and > > friends. > > I admit that this is a better tool if you restart your laptop > (for example, if it does not support sleep mode) between two > changes. Another solution would be some kind of display manager which > runs in text mode and then allows to choose an X server configuration > before starting X. Sure would be great ;) zeDek -- "Warum sollte ich ! Das Satan.pl postet doch weiterhin und macht dieser Sprache nun wirklich keine Ehre. Machs doch als Batch. Ms-Dose ist vom Niveau besser für dich." Nils.Henkelmann@t-online.de (Nils Henkelmann)
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