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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by okasaki on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:43AM (#30020830)
Editing xorg.conf became unnecessary around 2003 iirc. You either have a strange set up or a very good memory.
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by bayindirh on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:49AM (#30020888)
I'm using Linux for ~20 years at this point. I remember fine tuning X.org after than that to fine tune behavior of ATI and nVidia drivers back in the day, around 2007-2008 IIRC.

While most of the work has vanished for single monitor setups around that time frame, multi-monitor setting wasn't very reliable and deterministic under xrandr came around and drivers added native support for that.

*: randr came around 2003: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/log/randr/randr.c?...

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by oblio on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:27AM (#30021165)
I still had Ubuntu upgrades requiring me to edit the xorg.conf for a bog standard single CRT in about 2007 or so.

And I definitely touched xorg.conf a bunch of times even a few years later.

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