Heads up: X server configuration changes

[Thomas Janssen]

2010/2/16 Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:25:24PM +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>> 2010/2/16 Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>:
>> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:26:54PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:16:42PM +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
>> >> configuration can be in xorg.conf or in /etc/xorg.conf.d/.
>> >
>> > Can it be /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ instead please?  It would suck to have
>> > to look in two different places, /etc/X11/xorg.conf vs.
>> > /etc/xorg.conf.d/ instead of having everything under one parent
>> > directory.  Thanks.
>>
>> I hope not. It's pretty fine to have a foo.d folder in /etc and not in
>> /etc/foo/.
>
> Except I didn't recommend /etc/xorg.conf and /etc/xorg.
>
> /etc/X11 is where the X11 config bits live.  All I'm saying, is make
> the new xorg.conf.d live where all the other X11 config lives.
>
> Why would you want to have the new config:
>
> /etc/xorg.conf.d/*
>
> when the existing config files are:
>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/*
> /etc/X11/xinit/*
>
> Unless you are going to move everything:
>
> /etc/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf
> /etc/xorg.conf.d/fontpath.d/*
> /etc/xorg.conf.d/xinit/*

That's how i understand the change. Like do it right and move
everything to /etc/xorg.conf.d/*
Maybe i could have said that in the first place. My bad.

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LG Thomas

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