Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:44:59 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: gljennjohn@gmail.com Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Config file location? Message-ID: <201906051445.x55EixO7015215@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:35:24 %2B0200." <20190605093524.0003d560@ernst.home>
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Hi, Reference:
> From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com>
> Reply-to: gljennjohn@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 09:35:24 +0200
Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:13:47 -0700
> "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > It's been quite a long time since I tried to setup and configure a
> > fresh new FreeBSD system, but I am doing that now, using 12.0-RELEASE.
> > Obviously a lot of things have changed.
> >
> > So far, most everything is working OK. I have X running and my
> > favorite window manager (fvwm) installed and all is mostly well.
> >
> > The problem is that I don't much care for the default keyboard
> > repeat rate, and I want to increase it.
> >
> > In that past, I accomplished this by diddling a couple of lines
> > in the xorg.conf file, but now I can't even seem to find where
> > that is located. I did do "man Xorg" and checked all of the
> > places listed in the FILES section of that man page, but I still
> > can't seem to find the little bugger.
> >
> > Does it still exist? If so, where?
> >
>
> Looks like you're right, xorg.conf doesn't seem to exist any more.
> But the man page is still present, so you could generate one based
> on that.
current:
grep / /var/log/Xorg.0.log
"Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[ 41.376] (==) Using default built-in configuration (39 lines)
I too have no xorg.conf in the list of dirs. at base of man Xorg
but see man Xorg:
-configure
When this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video
driver modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out
an initial xorg.conf(5)
>
> If you still have an old xorg.conf from a backup or a running
> system you still copy it to /etc/X11 and the Xorg server will use
> it. I have a fairly old xorg.conf there and it works.
>
> The other possibilty would be to use startx und put a ''xset -r''
> command into $HOME/.xinitc. That's how I do it.
>
> --
> Gary Jennejohn
Cheers,
Julian
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