From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050818 Fedora/1.1-0.2.7.deerpark.alpha2.1 Firefox/1.0+ Description of problem: When running from a working X setup, it would be nice to be able to test the results of a new config, without having to restart X. Spawing a second server should be an option in this case? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info:
Oh, and a "make this permanent" button too, of course.
To expand a little: this is being suggested so that if, for instance, I make a mistake in setting my monitor details, and the resolution I choose ends up pushing the monitor out of scan range, I would know more immediately than having to restart X manually. In particular, if autodetection has failed, and I have to pick from a list of monitors, two things can happen: 1) I may pick the wrong monitor, in which case the the wrong h/vsync limits, coupled with the modes I select, might drive the monitor out of range. 2) I may know the monitor is capable of e.g. 1600x1200x85, but s-c-d doesn't offer it because it hasn't read the EDID data and isn't aware the monitor claims to support it. In the latter case, it would also be helpful if s-c-d would allow me to select 1600x1200, even if it thinks I'm wrong. There could be a command line option "--allow-dangerous-settings" if necessary :) And especially in that case, I need to be able to bail out and not change the xorg.conf if I was wrong :)
*** Bug 178113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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I have no idea whether this is even an issue any more; KDE config tools mostly seem to have the right confirmation included, and I no longer use s-c-d unless I have really screwed up my system ... usually I just tweak a little and have a backup or can just reverse the change.
I think there is not much future for s-c-d anyway. Closing as NOTABUG.