Bug#616010: xserver-xorg: dexconf fails to generate xorg.conf file
Cyril> yes. Xorg works without any configuration in almost all cases
Cyril> (and we even removed dexconf in further versions of xorg
Cyril> packages). -configure can generate a template if you really need
Cyril> something to start from. There's the xorg.conf manpage, too.
Cyril> I'm not sure we want to maintain an xorg.conf generator just for
Cyril> some corner cases.
Sorry, but your somewhat amused tone in replying to this report is out
of place.
Yes, Xorg works without configuration - for some value of "works". On
pretty much any laptop, one needs to at least configure the synaptics
touchpad. The defaults for that are unusable (no tapping, hence no way
to middle-click, very hard to double-click if you're not dexterous).
The desktops have their GUI tools to configure that, but guess what?
None of the desktops goes beyond the most trivial settings, in the case
of Gnome I think it's just left-handed vs right-handed and that's it.
So, still unusable without manual configuration. And what if I don't
use a desktop?
And I'm leaving out the keyboard which has similar issues, and also
similar nonsolutions.
Go ahead and remove dexconf, better no tool than a totally broken one,
but please consider adding a flexible, transparent and
desktop-independent tool to configure the above.
Thanks.
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