Elektrified X.org released (was: X configuration paradigm, and a proposal)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 30.11.2004 kl. 18.43 skrev David Zeuthen:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm all for improving the situation with around auto configuration of
> hardware, but with all due respect, I think you guys are trying to solve
> the symptom, not the real problem. In my view you really want the X
> server to be able to export an API for software higher up the stack
> (GNOME, KDE, etc.) to configure the X server. You also want to
> reconfigure it while it's running. It seems to me, that putting in an
> mediator, for basically writing out configuration files, is not the best
> API for doing this. I could be wrong though. Ideally the X server
> wouldn't even touch hardware before someone used that API to say "Add
> monitor, Add input device, blah blah".
> 
> Anyway, with the right API in the X server (which would probably be
> exported through D-BUS), I should be able to write a daemon, let's call
> it gnome-input-manager, that runs in the desktop session as user davidz.
> This would also allow said daemon to disable the touchpad when I connect
> an external mouse or, for more fun, to disable it around intervals where
> I'm punching the keys. The reason you want this in the desktop session
> is that you want to query the locally logged in users preferences from
> e.g. gconf or whatever.
> 
> Just what I personally think.

Hmm... Would it be possible to restart *X11* without killing the current
session? So that the user would only se a "blink" and then whatever was
working?