On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 23:23 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > My contempt for the mental processes of the X designers rose to new > > levels when I discovered that all you have to do is cut & paste numbers > > it already knows and prints in the log into the right columns in a > > ModeLine > > directive. Why X can't do this automatically is beyond my > > comprehension :-). > > It's open source -- you're free to write the missing code. I'm also free to marvel at the inability of X to use the information it obtains from the monitor to automatically create the optimal display mode :-).