RE: XF86Config and commandline

[Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>]

How about adding a -config_file x:\dir\file
Parameter, so the options could be set in a file too?



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From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 10:20 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XF86Config and commandline


Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm working on a full support of the XF86Config file (with the screen
> sections) and want to make all special options from the commandline also
> available from the configfile.
>
> With these changes I also want to simplify the commandline parsing. Most
> options which can be specified for each screen will be only available
> for all screens.
>
> eg. XWin -screen 0 800x600 -fullscreen -screen 1 800x600
> does currently enable fullscreen only for the first screen and not for the
> second will then set both screen to fullscreen.
>

I don't like that.  I don't think it is something that should be gotten
rid of.  It may not be important for -fullscreen, but it is is important
for -depth, -dpi, etc.

Harold

> I want to do this to simplify the datastructures where I have to store
> the commandline options which will override the settings from the
configfile.
>
> Any comments to this?
>
> bye
>     ago
>
> BTW: I attached an example, how the configfile could look like.
>
> NP: Terminal Choice - The Saviour
>
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