Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:59:44 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg.conf Message-ID: <2BE5C262-12A1-4941-92F5-76262B0EF371@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <31a749ec0511101249s6062da57ibb9e3562328e264@mail.gmail.com> References: <5541566F-7999-4AB2-9761-CF85878CF4A8@u.washington.edu> <31a749ec0511101249s6062da57ibb9e3562328e264@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Alex Kelly wrote: > On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Alex Kelly wrote: >> >> >>> On 11/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Alex Kelly wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: >>>>> >>>>> find / -name "xorg.conf" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Try: >>>> >>>> locate xorg.conf >>>> >>>> first. Much quicker. If that doesn't find anything then try >>>> find, but >>>> with huge disks searching everywhere would take, well, a while. >>>> >>>> --Alex >>>> >>> >>> this is true and a good tip. it is quicker. however, xorg.conf could >>> have been created before his locate database was recomputed to >>> include >>> it. figured i'd cover all his bases. >>> >> >> Even quicker method (as compared to refreshing a locate >> database) >> for searching for a .conf file... >> >> find /usr/local/etc /etc -name "BLAH.conf" >> >> One should know that almost all conf files are located in / >> usr/local/ >> etc or /etc in FreeBSD. >> -Garrett > > one should also know that after executing "Xorg -configure", the > generated conf file is in /root and not in either /usr/local/etc or > /etc - it is manually copied to /etc/X11 later. > > so find /usr/local/etc /etc -name "BLAH.conf" is quicker, but will > miss the file Ah... I see. Well, the files are almost always placed in /root or ~/ it seems when configuring items. Just make sure to search for hidden files. -Garrett
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