fosswire.com — Remember the good old days when to change a screen resolution or driver, you had to edit xorg.conf or reconfigure X.org? Those fine times are now over, or they will be, with the release of Ubuntu 7.10. As of an update from a few days ago, users are now able to access a graphical user interface for editing xorg.conf,
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mitrickAug 18, 2007
for sure ill update to gutsy as soon i have that new tool now all linux users will be able to to some dualscreen easily
gcauthonAug 18, 2007
This comment is so stupid I wish I could digg you down twice. Oh wait, I can...
jaysaucer310Aug 18, 2007
windows has had this feature for years
Closed AccountAug 18, 2007
I have Vista on two notebooks. I have to say that Vista sucks. I can't wait for Gutsy so I can loose Vista! I would put on Feisty, but why waste my time when Gutsy is just around the corner and I only want to do the work to install it (all 30 minutes of it) once.
Closed AccountAug 19, 2007
Whoever's digging me down hasn't tried it.Dual-monitor support worth anything requires a driver to be installed which will make the OS not boot anymore without reinstalling the driver in text-only mode, taking about 5 minutes every boot, because for some reason it decides to overwrite the X module for it every boot.This issue is not present on any other distro.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2007
Windows doesn't HAVE things like Beryl.........Oh, and don't mention Aero. Ask anyone who has used both - 4/5 will tell you it's a poor substitute, including Chris Pirillo...
jaekzebarbarianAug 20, 2007
Don't you mean this, instead? "Too bad ATI refuses to work on its GNU/Linux drivers enough to make them stable and otherwise decent."And uh, I didn't read anything that said that this will be limited to NVidia and Intel chipsets, so.. yeah.
jaekzebarbarianAug 20, 2007
Personally, after having used Beryl, Compiz, and Compiz Fusion, I prefer Compiz Fusion over the other two. Beryl was too unstable and Compiz was too blah and unconfigurable.Though it keeps deleting my settings when I update. Beryl at least had let me export/import them.