Oh, sorry, forgot a huge point there ... Headless X-Servers, Nested X and other configurations often require such ... commonly used as X-Terminal Servers, or need remote displays, and an SSH X11 tunnel or other things may not be possible (even though solutions like MobaXterm and others on Windows make them cake). So it's not as much plug'n play for those.
E.g., Oracle, among others, are still notorious for shipping various installers that require X11 services. While I don't expect LPIC-1 candidates to know anything about those, they need to be aware of why the configuration files may exist. Lack of awareness is what usually gets a lot of sysadmins, even if they are reaching out to senior admins, they need to know something is there to ask about. - bjs On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:15 AM, SirStephanikus1982 > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The /etc/xorg.conf file itself is not needed anymore since ubunut 11.10 (it >> does not even exist). Almoste everything is plug and plug and regarding to >> that....not needed for lpic 1 in my opinion. > > This has been the case with virtually all distributions. However, > both /etc/X11/xorg.conf and/or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* files can be > used to explicitly dictate and/or override details. > > E.g., I regularly use them in multi-monitor and/or multi-GPU systems. > > I'm probably atypical, exposed to far more desktop/mobile usage than > most users. Same goes for PowerManagement and systemd/systemctl > aspects with docking stations, for example. > > - bjs -- -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
