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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Why are the xorg developers silent on this issue?

I was out on paternity leave the month of september.  Also keep in mind
we get hundreds of bug reports against X.org every week; I'd like to
respond to every one personally but that would take far more time than I
actually have.

> Therefore I request the xorg developers, to make displayconfig-gtk
available

While I did help on maintaining displayconfig-gtk in Hardy, X.org does
not actually maintain GUI configuration tools, rather that is the
jurisdiction of GNOME/KDE/etc.  displayconfig-gtk was proposed for
addition to GNOME, but they refused it in favor of developing their own
applet.  Thus, any missing features in the current applet that
displayconfig-gtk could do, is rather a wishlist bug against the applet.
I don't know if/when they will fix it, but if this issue really bothers
you I'd encourage you to talk to GNOME or even send in your own patch to
them (if you do, take a look at xkit which has some logic for
manipulating xorg.conf files.)

As far as resurrecting displayconfig-gtk, it would require a fairly
massive reimplementation work to make it support Xrandr.  This is
outside the scope of xorg, and a WONTFIX from the displayconfig-gtk
project since it is no longer being maintained.

** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => New

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Display configuration: a new version of displayconfig-gtk is necessary
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428477
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