[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: XFree86

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 09:56, Kyle Davenport wrote:
> OK, I'll bite.  You never said why you need to restart X "without logging
> out".  <gratuitous jab at M$ Windoze>Of course on my high end geek system,
> restarting X and logging in takes only a few seconds - shorter than a
> "dynamic" change under windows</end jab>   There are lots of facilities for
> changing X on the fly.  You know about resolution changes now, well I've
> seen several ways to run different color depths too, from an extra X server
> to within the current server.   The traditional X utilities allow you to
> change just about anything an X server knows about: xset, xsetroot,
> xmodmap, xauth, xrdb, xcmsdb...

For the tablet.  To be able to rotate the screen, or change to dual
headed mode or duplicate my screen to the external monitor.   Its not
that I can't log out and back in, I just would prefer not to.

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`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
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