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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

Looks like we need a standard place to put the config file then.  I 
thought it was always in my /usr/lib/X11/whatever directory since my 
first install.  I'm wondering how did people get it in other places? 
shouldn't we have this in some standard way as not to confuse users?

Jeremy

Tony Smith wrote:

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> See "man XF86Config"
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> most distro's use /etc/X11/XF86Config as it's the first 
> non-command-line-specific location that the XFree86 server searches.
>
> Tony.
>
> On Friday 25 October 2002 2:53 pm, Dufflebunk wrote:
>  
>
> > It's in the /usr/lib/X11/ directory for me (or something like that).
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jason Flatt wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:26 pm, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > hey all, I just noticed that in the last paragraph of the description
> > > > for the truetype spell it mentions adding a line to /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> > > > the XF86Config file is not in the /etc/X11 directory. this should be
> > > > changed as to not confuse the newbies. also in my xfree86 log file i
> > > > always get a  "Could not init font path element
> > > > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, removing from list!"
> > > >
> > > > what's this mean? i have the appropriate lines in my XftConfig file and
> > > > XF86Config file and the fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype. just
> > > > curious.
> > > >
> > > > Jeremy
> > > >        
> > > XF86Config is in my /etc/X11 directory.
> > >      
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