Config file location?

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:36 AM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:13:47 -0700
> "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > It's been quite a long time since I tried to setup and configure a
> > fresh new FreeBSD system, but I am doing that now, using 12.0-RELEASE.
> > Obviously a lot of things have changed.
> >
> > So far, most everything is working OK.  I have X running and my
> > favorite window manager (fvwm) installed and all is mostly well.
> >
> > The problem is that I don't much care for the default keyboard
> > repeat rate, and I want to increase it.
> >
> > In that past, I accomplished this by diddling a couple of lines
> > in the xorg.conf file, but now I can't even seem to find where
> > that is located.  I did do "man Xorg" and checked all of the
> > places listed in the FILES section of that man page, but I still
> > can't seem to find the little bugger.
> >
> > Does it still exist?  If so, where?
> >
>
> Looks like you're right, xorg.conf doesn't seem to exist any more.
> But the man page is still present, so you could generate one based
> on that.
>
> If you still have an old xorg.conf from a backup or a running
> system you still copy it to /etc/X11 and the Xorg server will use
> it.  I have a fairly old xorg.conf there and it works.
>
> The other possibilty would be to use startx und put a ''xset -r''
> command into $HOME/.xinitc.  That's how I do it.
>
> --
> Gary Jennejohn
>

X looks for xorg.conf in a bunch of places, but the traditional /etc/X11
still works and I use it.

The thing that has changed is that it is no longer required. In most cases,
X works fine with no configuration, but there are many reasons to have one.
Your case may be one, but any of that type of thing may be handled on a
per-user or per-session basis with commands in .xinit such as xset(1) or
xrandr(1).  An obvious use for xorg.conf is to add fonts or change the
behavior of the graphics card. My xorg.conf currently contains only
'Section "Files"' with a list of additional fonts.
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