From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 17:35:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB69A37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1231A43E4A for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6Q0Yxga000872; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:34:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:35:04 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 8086BBA12; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:34:52 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Jeff Jirsa , Ed Yu Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:34:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: MET , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020725153614.X79056-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020725153614.X79056-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207252034.52266.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 25 July 2002 06:41 pm, Jeff Jirsa wrote: | On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ed Yu wrote: | > 4. Things like right click to change resolution and | > wizards to help setup things, and various other small | > things. But once you get the hang of it, you will | > stick with FreeBSD, trust me. | | This type of thing is what still bothers me, after years of using various | systems... X, by its very nature, is not made to be reconfigured once it's | running. If someone would take the time to make it | 1) easy to configure (linux installers have basically done this) | 2) easy to reconfigure while running (if it exists, I haven't seen it) | X would instantly become more usable. On the other hand, for laptop use you never want to do this. Sometimes under Windows you do to deal with broken applications, but it's always a terrible idea to use any resolution other than the native hardware resolution on an LCD display--the resampling always looks vastly inferior to the native resolution. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message