On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:02 +0000, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and > > > locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have > > > found all these back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what > > > have you, unnecessary and annoyingly time wastin > > > > > > Of course I might have missed something simple in all this kerfuffle, so > > > please chime in if there is a better way around this. > > > > If all you are worried about is making your touchpad work in X, and > > you're willing to pull it up in a text editor every time you need to > > make a change, then no, you didn't really miss anything. > > Well, it's the touch pad and keyboard on two laptops, both of which seem to > not have liked evdev defaults, or modifying xorg.conf, or adding options to > the evdev file itself, or adding options to the 50-synaptics.conf file, or a > 10-keyboard.conf file that I created. > > On the other hand, with a desktop the transition to 1.9 two months or so ago > just worked™. > > > The purpose of xorg.conf.d is to allow packages/utilities/etc to drop in > > changes to your X config seamlessly, as in, without the user being > > required to take any specific action. For example, the synaptics input > > driver drops a 50-synaptics.conf file into your xorg.conf.d that > > includes a simple "this is a touchpad" configuration, which would take > > effect just by restarting X. > > Are you talking about the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory or the > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which I created on my own? I was hoping that any > additions in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ would take precedence over settings in > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and survive an update, but the two seem to clash > and cause erratic behaviour.
If you have a file of the same name in both directories, then the one in /etc should override the one in /usr/share. But the names need to match exactly.
