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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Many distros have it in /usr/lib/X11/XF86Config, then have a symlink to it 
in /etc/X11.

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jeremy Kolb wrote:

> 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"
> >
> >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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