On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:47:26PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:33:41PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> > Peter Hutterer wrote: >> > > One more thing about this patchset. what's the behaviour if the server is >> > > run with Xorg -config foobar.conf? >> > > >> > > Does it still scan xorg.conf.d? If so, we need an option to disable that >> > > so >> > > one can force _only_ the use of a custom xorg.conf, without system >> > > configurations interfering. >> > >> > A command line option or a setting in the foobar.conf ? >> >> I'd say a commandline option at least. I'm not sure how much use a .conf >> option would be to disable scanning of the xorg.conf directory, it seems >> execessive. > > How about: > * -config can be specified multiple times > * directories can be specified as well as files > * any specification on the command line overrides the default > * the default is $(sysconfdir)/X11/xorg.conf:$(sysconfdir)/X11/xorg.conf.d > > That should generally DTRT.
That seems reasonable, but it's a bit more code. Right now (what I'm about to post) -config is independent of config directory, and the directory is always scanned for. How about I post my patch as is and we can see what else might be wanted. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
