Re: dontzap - a application to revert dontzap setting

[psmith <johnsmithdoe14 googlemail com>]

Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:00:21AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>   
> > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram fedoraproject org) said: 
> >     
> > > https://launchpad.net/x-kit - DontZap is an application written in
> > > Python which relies on X-Kit and allows users to set the "DontZap"
> > > option in xorg.conf. Anyone interested in packaging this?
> > >
> > > You will need to package both x-kit and dontzap.
> > >       
> > An app, a configuration framework with four differnet programs, all
> > to twiddle one configuration line. Impressive.
> >     
>
>   And all of this for manipulating xorg.conf, which doesn't even exists
> on modern distros.
>
>   
yeah that's true, but all those emacs weenie's, and those dev's who 
supposedly want to protect everyone from shooting themself in the foot, 
want us who want to keep the X11 default regress to using an xorg.conf, 
when in reality it is them who should be doing the regression and using 
an xorg.conf to disable zapping!