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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:20:24
Message-Id: ebeb7b4f-15ed-5e25-5e2f-ecb03a35ef13@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 04/02/2017 12:18 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 23:35:59 -0500, Dale wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>> You do sometimes need some custom settings though. This goes in
6 >>>> seperate *.conf files now, which must be inside the
7 >>>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. Some packages can place a config file
8 >>>> there automatically.
9 >>
10 >> Packages shouldn't do that, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d is for local
11 >> configuration files. Packages are supposed to use
12 >> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
13 >
14 > Oh. Then I guess some runtime program generates files there. I have two:
15 >
16 > 00-keyboard.conf
17 > 20opengl.conf
18 >
19 > It seems eselect generates the opengl one, but the other I don't now
20 > where it came from:
21 >
22 > # Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not
23 > # to edit this file manually too freely.
24 > Section "InputClass"
25 > Identifier "system-keyboard"
26 > MatchIsKeyboard "on"
27 > Option "XkbLayout" "us"
28 > Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
29 > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
30 > EndSection
31 >
32 > I assumed the systemd package installed it there. (I don't use
33 > systemd, but I have it installed.) Now I see that "qfile" doesn't find
34 > a package this belongs to, so it's been put there by some daemon or
35 > other program probably.
36 >
37 >
38 > .
39 >
40
41
42 If it helps narrow the options down, I don't have systemd here. I think
43 it was Neil that suggested eselect generates it and puts it there, or
44 just puts it there.
45
46 Dale
47
48 :-) :-)