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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xwindows Help!!! Newbie
Date: 4 Jul 1995 09:00:46 +0200
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<williamsr@redash.qut.edu.au> wrote:
>>There is no XF86Config executable, only the text file in
>>/usr//X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.eg which should be edited and placed in
>>/etc/XF86Config.
>The XF86Config file is to be placed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.
That's not quite exact. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 is only one place where
XF86Config will be searched for. It will be first searched in $HOME
(but only for a user with uid == 0, for security reasons), then in
/etc, then in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. (Perhaps there are even more, i
don't know offhand.)
The /etc location is interesting if you happen to have a shared
/usr/X11R6 installation, since you can still customize it for each
machine. You will also need to modify the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
setup to direct xdm to find its files e.g. under /etc/xdm (or
/var/xdm, if you prefer - there's an ongoing discussion about this on
freebsd-hackers).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)