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Joseph wrote:
> On 04/07/09 17:22, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>> which pretty much makes hal a bad idea. 'use hal so you don't have to
>> edit files' and then have to edit hal's convoluted xml files instead
>> of the simple, easy to read xorg.conf ...
>
> I'll second it, why complicate simple design; going from text file
> configuration to xml :-(
It's optional. You can keep using xorg.conf. See my other post for an
example.