On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Rick Moen wrote:
Back in dinosaur days, when I was dissembling the X infrastructure of early Slackware and Red Hat Linux boxen, I traced all of that ghod-awful maze of conffiles until, for one glorious moment, I held it all in my head, in all of its hideous glory. And was well and truly revolted.
And then the moment passed, and I've forgotten much of it, rather like the mostly-recovered protegonist of an H.P. Lovecraft short story.
You haven't forgotten it. It's changed. And become more evil. I remember the good old days when you could chuck scripts in /etc/pm.d or something similar to get it to do things prior and aft suspend. Hah! I hadn't figured out how to do it again as of about 2 years ago. And it's probably gotten worse since. It sounded to me like a DE wasn't optional for that to pretend to work. -- Tim Connors