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RE: New to-do item - configuration
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: "Pidgornyy, Oleksandr" <OPidgornyy at kyiv dot utel dot com dot ua>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 03:36:02 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: New to-do item - configuration
Though I do not know what the issues are with porting the configfile reader, it
also seems to be the most portable solution. One of the things I like the most
about the X server, is that it is so similar to the *nix ports out there. The
auto-configurability obviously is not necessary, as with the settings that go
along with it (refresh rates, etc) since it has a graphics library to sit on
top of, so it may be a bit easier.
A Registry solution would be extremely quick to implement, but you loose the
instant familiarity. The very first thing I did when I downloaded the X server
for the first time was go directly to the XF86Config file, and was confused to
not find it. (This was before the fabulous documentation of course... Thanks
Harold :))
But who am I to complain? I havent had a part in the development... only in
some debugging. For that matter, I like it just the way it is :)
Brian
--- "Pidgornyy, Oleksandr" <OPidgornyy@kyiv.utel.com.ua> wrote:
> I would suggest to make it as in the Linux if this is not more complicated
> than via registry.
> Arguments: the configuration will be in the same manner as everything rest
> otherwise configuration via registry
> would make the configuration process dissimilar.
>
> Sincerely,
> Alex
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> [mailto:Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de]
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:39 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: New to-do item - configuration
>
>
> Hi,
>
> after several requests, we should add the following point to the todo-list:
>
> Configuration:
> Implementation of a static configuration. Either as file as in the
> Linux version Xfree86 or via the Windows registry.
>
> The configuration should contain these points:
>
> - Dimension and location of the window
> - Fontpath configuration
> - XKB configuration
> - Other options (3 Button emulation,...)
>
> The preferred format of the configuration file is the format of
> XF86Config used by other XFree86 X-servers.
> If a reuse of the configfile reader of XFree86 is not possible/
> _very_ complicated I would not mind if we use a different format.
>
> The registry variant would require a configuration program which
> allows the user to adjust these values.
>
> Comments?
>
> bye
> ago
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