Script to help find xorg configuration issues

[Jacques Foucry]

Le samedi 22 févr. 2020 à 15:36:19 (+0100), Michael Gmelin à écrit:

Hello,
> I've been helping others configuring X11 with UDEV/evdev for quite some
> time now. Since UDEV recently became the default option on 12.1[0], I
> thought that having something automated (yet non-intrusive) to
> help users fix their setup might be useful.
> 
> To achieve this, I created a small/hacky script today that checks all
> the usual problems I found while helping people figuring out what's
> wrong with their setup.
> 
> You can find it on github:
> https://github.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check
> 
> Direct download link:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check/master/xorg-udev-setup-check.sh
> 
> Usage: ./xorg-udev-setup-check.sh [-hdpi]
>    -h print this help
>    -d skip drm checks
>    -p skip package version checks
>    -i only show errors (suppress info)
> 
> You should be able to run it as an unprivileged user - fixing things
> will require root privileges though.
> 
> I didn't test it thoroughly, so feel free to open pull requests
> on github - functional improvements only please, don't try to improve
> the code quality.

Thanks for this script. It helps me to reconfigure or add some elements to my
xorg config. I have now a dialog to configure my touchpad \o/

Man, you rocks !

-- 
Jacques Foucry