From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:06:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507262306010.5777@gandalf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E6DC3D.20409@gmail.com>
My understanding is that X searches the path given in xorg.conf
irregardless of who starts it but I may be wrong. I use xdm, not gdm.
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>
>> Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for
>> xorg.conf.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote:
>>
>> > I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my
>> > mouse is
>>
>>
>> Snip
>>
>> > I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only
>> > scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My question
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
>>
> Thanks, it seems the system searchs farther than I understood. Based on what
> I have read on gdm, the X server is started by a non-privliged user, to avoid
> possiblities of exploition of the system via the login area. If this is in
> fact true then the search for the xorg.conf file would be limited to the /usr
> or /etc folders, not the / folder.
> Does there need to be an update to the man file, or is this a undocumented
> feature?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-27 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-26 23:54 [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone George Roberts
2005-07-27 0:20 ` Brett I. Holcomb
2005-07-27 0:58 ` George Roberts
2005-07-27 3:06 ` Brett I. Holcomb [this message]
2005-07-27 3:28 ` George Roberts
2006-11-07 18:37 ` [gentoo-user] X starting in 640x480 only Christian Herzyk
2006-11-08 6:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-11-08 21:23 ` Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2006-11-09 5:35 ` fei huang
2005-07-27 2:48 ` [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-07-27 3:45 ` George Roberts
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