Re: xinerama and gdm

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:38:41PM -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote:
>
> > Is there a better way to turn on xinerama than to add +xinerama into the 
> > gdm.conf file?  It gets overwritten every time gdm is upgraded.  Is 
> > there a particularly good reason xinerama is off by default?
>
>
> Or a reason gdm.conf isn't marked "noreplace"?

In the past the file format has changed in incompatible ways, I was told 
as the reason.  Complain upstream if you want to change this decision. 
Get them to say "the config file will not change in incompatible ways".

Warren