XF86Config and commandline

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm working on a full support of the XF86Config file (with the screen 
> sections) and want to make all special options from the commandline also 
> available from the configfile.
> 
> With these changes I also want to simplify the commandline parsing. Most
> options which can be specified for each screen will be only available
> for all screens.
> 
> eg. XWin -screen 0 800x600 -fullscreen -screen 1 800x600
> does currently enable fullscreen only for the first screen and not for the
> second will then set both screen to fullscreen.
> 

I don't like that.  I don't think it is something that should be gotten 
rid of.  It may not be important for -fullscreen, but it is is important 
for -depth, -dpi, etc.

Harold

> I want to do this to simplify the datastructures where I have to store
> the commandline options which will override the settings from the configfile.
> 
> Any comments to this?
> 
> bye
>     ago
> 
> BTW: I attached an example, how the configfile could look like. 
>     
> NP: Terminal Choice - The Saviour
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