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xorg-edit: GUI for editing xorg.conf
Hello,
because there were several biddings about a better way to edit the xorg.conf in the German Ubuntu Forum (Link) I write a little GUI to edit the xorg.conf.
- Project Page
- Download-Page
- Repository for Deb Package
Greetings, Dee
I use wxWidgets to create the GUI, so you need libwxgtk2.6-0 to start it.
I would be very happy if there is someone who would like to test it and post his opinion.
Greetings, Dee
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Dapper user here, what are the dependencies? There's a wxwidgets dependency I can' figure out,
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bjorninge@LappyDapper:~/Desktop$ ./xorg-edit
./xorg-edit: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
bjorninge@LappyDapper:~/Desktop$
Re: xorg-edit: GUI for editing xorg.conf
@oldmanstan: Thanks! :)
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Originally Posted by dabear
Dapper user here, what are the dependencies? There's a wxwidgets dependency I can' figure out,
Do you have libwxgtk2.4-1 installed? If so, check if there is some file /usr/lib/libwx_gtk-2.4.so.1.
Greetings, Dee
Re: xorg-edit: GUI for editing xorg.conf
So, there is a new version and I use wx2.6 now. So you need libwxgtk-2.6-0.
Greetings, Dee
Re: xorg-edit: GUI for editing xorg.conf
Thank you for the valuable work.
I use an ATI Radeon 7200. I had PageFlip enabled, and had to manually disable it to load xorg-edit.
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Option "EnablePageFlip" "true
I would like to see some configuration options or basic help menus.
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Originally Posted by adamkane
Thank you for the valuable work.
I use an ATI Radeon 7200. I had PageFlip enabled, and had to manually disable it to load xorg-edit.
Is the option line correct that you have posted? If so, there is a " missing at the end. My tool don't recognize the options itself but they must be in the format
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Option "name" "value"
or only If the error still exists, please post (or mail me) your xorg.conf, so that can I take a look at this.
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I would like to see some configuration options or basic help menus.
This is the next step! I want to create some XML-files where all options and possible values are listed so taht the user can select from a drop down list and can do nothing wrong while editing.
Thanks for testing, :)
Dee
Re: xorg-edit: GUI for editing xorg.conf
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Originally Posted by dee.dw
Hello,
because there were several biddings about a better way to edit the xorg.conf in the German Ubuntu Forum (
Link) I write a little GUI to edit the xorg.conf.
-
Project Page
I use wxWidgets to create the GUI, so you need libwxgtk2.6-0 to start it.
I would be very happy if there is someone who would like to test it and post his opinion.
Greetings, Dee
Wonderful!
I will NEVER go back to edit xorg.conf manually again (if I screw something up, I'll probably restore the backup and start gnome again).
Could you get this into the debian repositories and eventually part of the tools under System -> Administration in Gnome? Definitely belongs there, under "Advanced graphics options" or similar.
Suggestions:
- Auto-backup of xorg.conf when starting app (in ~/.xorg-edit/backups/ or similar)
- Possibility to choose enabled/disabled for an option
- Some general info about configuring X, like that sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg will rebuild it if something screws up
This is certainly THE step for debian users to be able to skip the tedious manual xorg.conf-editing. Hopefully, the auto-configure done at installation will be enough for most people, thus never have to edit xorg.conf with this app, but whenever xgl, tv-out and dual monitor support is not enabled by default, this app helps a lot!
Thanks!
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You might want to look at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=926906, a thread where your tool is discussed amongst other things.
Re: xorg-edit: GUI for editing xorg.conf
New version...
v06.04.16:
- Bugfix: many, many... most are gone with the old design
- Bugfix: save status flag is set when adding or deleting elements
- Design: redesign of elements, less buttons
- Design: current config file name is shown in frame bar
- Feature: backup files will be saved with date and time
- Feature: new menu entrys for closing current config and creating empty config file
- Feature: maximum of screens and input devices in server layout are recognized by available devices
- Feature: question if some entries should be deleted
- Internal: deleted menu entry for load backup file and load standard xorg.conf
- Internal: more integrity checks (e.g. empty fields)
- Internal: disable some integrity checks while reading config file,
so it is possible to load a misconfigured file and "repair" it
Greetings, Dee