[Gllug] Odd laptop resolutions and Xorg

[Nix]

On 29 Apr 2009, Matthew King uttered the following:

> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Personally I flip over to the emergency monitor attached to the other
>> machine and kick up gdb on it when that happens: can't have it happening
>> again, must report it :)
>
> Since getting married, the number of emergency monitors has drastically
> decreased.

Oh, I hate emergency monitors. I have exactly one (mostly in case my
real monitor burns out), and with the new machines all supporting IPMI
or a serial console hopefully I won't need to use it for anything else.

>> A member of the conspiracy, but not a full-fledged one. I probably count
>> as a full-fledged one, as I can't stand real vi (the bleeding *cursor
>> keys* don't work: join the 1980s already) and its more advanced commands
>> fall out of my head all the time.
>
> Well that's a good point. It's not technically real vi but it's as
> real-vi-like as I can reasonably get it.

I still encounter Solaris's moan that it can't start vi because your
terminal is too wide on a regular basis :(

>> (I *have* killed X simply by missing keys, because on my keyboard
>> backspace, ctrl and alt are all next to each other in a line...)
>
> Boggles.

Maltron keyboard :)
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