Why is configuring displays so damn difficult? It was never clear to me why there needed to be so many tools (xrandr, xorg, X, startx, xinit, xanorama) to just get a basic display working at the max resolution when other operating systems manage to have some sane plug-and-play behavior.
All of this seems to render linux pretty useless for hot-pluggable displays. I'm sure ubuntu has some sort of solution (I never use the desktop version); why can't this be integrated at the level of the X server (or hell, the graphics driver) itself? Is X too firmly baked to adjust to the needs of its users? Will wayland address this?
All of this seems to render linux pretty useless for hot-pluggable displays. I'm sure ubuntu has some sort of solution (I never use the desktop version); why can't this be integrated at the level of the X server (or hell, the graphics driver) itself? Is X too firmly baked to adjust to the needs of its users? Will wayland address this?