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Re: [LUG] Multiple X setups...

 

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:13:13 -0000 (UTC), "Neil Stone" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, March 4, 2008 09:20, Kai Hendry wrote:
>> There is an Xorg startx switch to load a different config. Sorry no time
>> to look it up,  but it does exist I think. :)
>>
>> X nowadays detects setups quite well except for Xinerama type setups. :/
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> xorg --config /etc/X11/xorg.conf-1
> 
> xorg --config /etc/X11/xorg.conf-2
> 
> etc..etc..
> 
> Can be called from script.. or, as Kai said, just run xorg without a
> config file at all and it'll generally "just work".

Yeah, I'm in the process of writing a little script that asks me for which
machine I'm at and will symlink the appropriate xorg.conf.roomname to
xorg.conf before allowing gdm to start.  I intend on making it autodetect
this, but I'm unsure which way to go... I had thought of just doing it by
harddrive UUID since that's unlikely to be the same across different
machines.

I would run without a conf file, but this Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) seems to drop
back to VESA 640x480... which is painful enough on a monitor and, as I'm
sure you can imagine, is downright silly when connected to a projector.

Cheers.
Grant.


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