On 17:35 23 Jul 2004, Denis Leroy <denisleroy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Boy that's a narrow view. How about laptop users ? I reboot my laptop | all the time, I can't switch from single to dual screens without it. | Speaking of laptops, are there any projects that focus on laptop | profiles ? The way i do it is to extend the existing network profile | tool with scripting hacks in rc.sysinit to change my xorg.conf, hwconf, | .gconf, .gnome and al... But the gnome network profiler is confusing | and i wonder if there are other solutions out there... Sure! My experiments extend purely to the initscripts. There's a LOT of scope for parallelism there. I wrote this: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/rc.mobile.html So now I run all startup scripts through it and non by the usual sequence: [~]kirsty*> chkconfig --list|grep :on [~]kirsty*1> Startup is MUCH faster. The example config file is out of date; I've switched laptops and extended things somewhat, and have dispensed with ifup, replacing it with direct ifconfig and route calls. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Actually, it's only 'evolution in action' if they haven't spawned yet. - JAM jmooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Not at all, because they might have spawned again had not the hand of fate intervened. I consider such cases a partial victory, at least. - Geoff Miller <geoffm@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#0996
