XConfigurationModification

Status

• Created: 2005-04-25 by JaneW

• Priority: LowPriority

• People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond

• Contributors: JaneW

• Interested: DanielStone

• Status: BrainDump, UduBof, DistroSpecification, NewSpec

• Branch:
• Malone Bug:
• Packages:
• Depends:
• Dependents:
  1. UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/XConfigurationModification

• UduSessions: 1, 4, 8, etc

Introduction

Allow users to be able to modify their X configuration without having to hack xorg.conf.

Rationale

There are two use cases here.

• First: Something goes wrong with our autodetection, and X either fails to start, or starts and fails to usefully display anything. Arguably, nothing can be done here, since if our autodetection has gone wrong, the odds of the user knowing how to fix it are low. However, if it's an easily-Googleable solution, this is possible. It's also arguable that 'edit xorg.conf' is an equally bad solution to this -- if they have to Google for something, we've already lost.
• Second: The user wants to modify their X configuration to include dual head, TV-out, whatever or wants to change their default color depth (for example, to run at a higher resolution); something that isn't covered in the scope of the installer's configuration system. Red Hat/Fedora have a tool for this (system-config-xorg?), and it seems to work quite well. This is the more obvious component.

Implementation Plan

This would probably be a lot easier to implement in tandem with XorgAutoconfiguration, so we can have a proper interface for this sort of thing, including an interface to what got detected.

Data Preservation and Migration

Packages Affected

User Interface Requirements

Outstanding Issues

UDU BOF Agenda

UDU Pre-Work