Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:08:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: user specific xorg.conf? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208191306190.70946@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120819195118.00427f87.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <503125EF.1020500@dreamchaser.org> <20120819195118.00427f87.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:44:15 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> In attempting to zero in on my system crash problem, >> I need to customize xorg.conf. >> As I read the documentation, >> there is no way for an ordinary user to provide an xorg.conf; >> Xorg looks for files in the normal server search path, >> which does not include any user directories -- >> unless the user is root. > > What if you do (as a user) the "startx" command and try > to hand the -config <file> to the program, like this: > > % Xorg -file /home/user/test/xorg.conf > > I haven't tried that myself, but according to "man Xorg" > this option does exist. However, I'm not sure if xinit > or startx honors this option if you use them (to make > use of ~/.xinitrc). I think that should be % Xorg -config /home/user/test/xorg.conf
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