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Originally posted by ratbastid
Hey, and if anyone says to you, "Sure, go edit /etc/X11/XF689Config-4, and then startx," you have my permission to punch them in the teeth. I've used Linux on my primary desktop for five years and files like that still give me the creeps. Not that it's not necessary to edit them directly sometimes, but... Let the newbie use the newbie toolz. There's a command-line snobbery sometimes that I think gets in the way of mainstream desktop Linux adoption.
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i am glad I didn't answer this before you did. I would have told him exactly that, go edit the XF86Config.
not to try to dissuade people from GUI tools, but more the fact I don't know the Mandrake (Redhat or SUSE) GUI tools for editting the files.
sometimes just telling someone about the basic config is the easiest way so you dont confuse certain distro specific questions..