Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:09:20 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Config file location? Message-ID: <20190606100920.6213af4e@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <51599.1559757096@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <20190605093524.0003d560@ernst.home> <51599.1559757096@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:51:36 -0700
"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> In message <20190605093524.0003d560@ernst.home>,
> gljennjohn@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >Looks like you're right, xorg.conf doesn't seem to exist any more.
>
> Yes, and maybe that's a good thing.
>
> I'll know for sure as soon as a take this disck drive with my shiny
> new 12.0-RELEASE system on it and try to boot it and then run X on
> it on a wole different system which has a totally different video
> card. (If X just adapts to the new video card without me having
> to do anything at all, then I'll be a very happy man.)
>
> >The other possibilty would be to use startx und put a ''xset -r''
> >command into $HOME/.xinitc. That's how I do it.
>
> Ahhhhhhhhhhh! THANK YOU! I really didn't know about this, but this
> is exactly what I needed. And it even works and does what I need!
>
> The exact syntax needed is a little difficult to infer from the
> man page for xset, but this seems to be the way it is done:
>
> xset r rate 300 60
>
> (It wasn't 100% clear from the man page that the keyword "rate"
> has to be literally there, as shown above, in the command line.)
>
Glad it works. In the SYNOPSIS it shows "r rate delay {rate]."
> Thanks again. This is WAY better than having to edit xorg.conf
> files anyway.
>
I have a number of xhost and xset commands in my .xinitrc. In particlar
"xset -dpms" bacause I don't want my screen to sleep. It's very convenient.
--
Gary Jennejohn
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