Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:11:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user specific xorg.conf? Message-ID: <k0rh91$lj3$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <503125EF.1020500@dreamchaser.org> <20120819195118.00427f87.freebsd@edvax.de> <503132A6.9030906@mail.com>
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:38:30 +0300, Jeff Tipton wrote: > On 08/19/2012 20:51, 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). >> >> >> >>> Am I missing something? >>> Is this because of the security vulnerabilities in X? >> A valid consideration. With a malfunctioning X server, you can easily >> crash a system. That's why a user should not be able to have access to >> such files. >> >> > Gary, why do you need user-specific xorg.conf? Presumably because he doesn't have root privileges. Duh.
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