Bug 88765
| Summary: | How to you configure X if you can't get a display? | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brad <bradb> |
| Component: | Xconfigurator | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-04-14 08:34:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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No. Xconfigurator is gone, and it is never going to come back. <singing> It is gone gone gone, it's ben gone so long, it's been gone gone gone so long so long. I hope you get the message, hear it on the radioooo.. Xconfigurator is gone, and it ain't coming back oh no... It's gooooooooone, it was unmaintainnn-able, it's goooooonne, you should obstain from it. It's beeeeen replaceeed by redhat-config-xfree86. </singing> Ok, that last part did not rhyme or follow the beat of the song to well. I suppose I owe an apology to Chilliwack for killing that song. Nonetheless, it suited my purposes well. <grin> The solution to your problem, is to read and use the commandline options that are available in our config tool. Misunderstanding of how to use a tool, and inability to use a tool, or to learn what it does actually do - does not constitute a feature, and does not mean that a tool can't do things that it does in fact do. Ok, that was my best Mike Brady impression. (yes, the Brady bunch). The short story: redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig redhat-config-xfree86 --help Also, if you require any tech support, or assistance using the redhat-config-xfree86, please join one of our mailing lists such as shrike-list and ask people how to do what it is you are wanting to do. Most likely, a more experienced user will be able to help you. If there is actually something that the command does not do, which you would like to see it be able to do, and you have looked at the various options that are there that it does do and none jump out at you, feel free to file a feature enhancement request for redhat-config-xfree86 Other than that, I can only say one thing.... Xconfigurator is definitely not coming back into Red Hat Linux ever. Not even if someone gets 10 million people to sign a petition, and gives me (or Red Hat) one billion dollars. We can not be bought. One look at the Xconfigurator source code should be sufficient to scare anyone away from considering to ask for it anyway. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: If your display settings are incorrect for your display adaptor/monitor pair and your X display doesn't work, then you need to be able to configure X with the CIF. Xconfigurator was very good for this, but now I have to manually edit X configuration files in /etc/X11/XF86Config. This is very cumbersome and will be beyond the majority of users. Please bring back Xconfigurator or an equivalent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See desctiption 2. 3. Additional info: