Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:51:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: user specific xorg.conf? Message-ID: <20120819195118.00427f87.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <503125EF.1020500@dreamchaser.org> References: <503125EF.1020500@dreamchaser.org>
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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. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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