user specific xorg.conf?

[Walter Hurry]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:38:30 +0300, Jeff Tipton wrote:

> On 08/19/2012 20:51, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:44:15 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
>>> In attempting to zero in on my system crash problem,
>>> I need to customize xorg.conf.
>>> As I read the documentation,
>>> there is no way for an ordinary user to provide an xorg.conf;
>>> Xorg looks for files in the normal server search path,
>>> which does not include any user directories --
>>> unless the user is root.
>> What if you do (as a user) the "startx" command and try to hand the
>> -config<file>  to the program, like this:
>>
>> 	% Xorg -file /home/user/test/xorg.conf
>>
>> I haven't tried that myself, but according to "man Xorg" this option
>> does exist. However, I'm not sure if xinit or startx honors this option
>> if you use them (to make use of ~/.xinitrc).
>>
>>
>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>> Is this because of the security vulnerabilities in X?
>> A valid consideration. With a malfunctioning X server, you can easily
>> crash a system. That's why a user should not be able to have access to
>> such files.
>>
>>
> Gary, why do you need user-specific xorg.conf?

Presumably because he doesn't have root privileges. Duh.