One of the reasons for confusion on this seemingly obvious question (where's the conf file) is that those of us who've been running X on Linux for a couple of years have been through some changes. Even before the transition to XFree86 v.4 there were occasions where more than one conf file was involved in a sort of cascading effect.
Most distros seem to have gone back to the single file now, but the practice still appears to be to include a LOT of different configuration options and have X sort out what works and what doesn't. My curent file, for instance, is unusually simple and only has four mode sections - only one of which works.
A while ago I embarked on a quest to get my system running in 100dpi mode instead of the default 75dpi. I found many places where the setting was available, but none of them affected my actual X sessiosn at all. I eventually gave up on it - it doesn't really seem to matter anywhere except when printing graphics.
I'm sure more than one of us anticipated a far more complicated problem, and did not trust the simplicity of the obvious answer. Hopefully Leo will let us know if we were wrong.
The problem I was having is that the XF86Config file (or my personal permutation of the name, "XF86Config-4") already had an "Option "Xinerama"" line in the file, so I thought that the problem was external to the XF86Config file. I didn't phrase the question with enough information about the problem, instead asking about where some vague unspecified "X11 Config File" was.
While I haven't restarted my X session yet, I think that adding the "True" boolean to the line might be the solution to the problem, as the current XF86Config-4 file line lacks this boolean value, and Jonathan says the default is "False".
--- Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:
One of the reasons for confusion on this seemingly obvious question (where's the conf file) is that those of us who've been running X on Linux for a couple of years have been through some changes. Even before the transition to XFree86 v.4 there were occasions where more than one conf file was involved in a sort of cascading effect.
Most distros seem to have gone back to the single file now, but the practice still appears to be to include a LOT of different configuration options and have X sort out what works and what doesn't. My curent file, for instance, is unusually simple and only has four mode sections
- only one of which
works.
A while ago I embarked on a quest to get my system running in 100dpi mode instead of the default 75dpi. I found many places where the setting was available, but none of them affected my actual X sessiosn at all. I eventually gave up on it - it doesn't really seem to matter anywhere except when printing graphics.
I'm sure more than one of us anticipated a far more complicated problem, and did not trust the simplicity of the obvious answer. Hopefully Leo will let us know if we were wrong.
===== And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.
-- Bertolt Brecht
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