Config file location?

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:51:36 -0700
"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> In message <20190605093524.0003d560 at ernst.home>, 
> gljennjohn at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >Looks like you're right, xorg.conf doesn't seem to exist any more.  
> 
> Yes, and maybe that's a good thing. 
> 
> I'll know for sure as soon as a take this disck drive with my shiny
> new 12.0-RELEASE system on it and try to boot it and then run X on
> it on a wole different system which has a totally different video
> card.  (If X just adapts to the new video card without me having
> to do anything at all, then I'll be a very happy man.)
> 
> >The other possibilty would be to use startx und put a ''xset -r''
> >command into $HOME/.xinitc.  That's how I do it.  
> 
> Ahhhhhhhhhhh!  THANK YOU!  I really didn't know about this, but this
> is exactly what I needed.  And it even works and does what I need!
> 
> The exact syntax needed is a little difficult to infer from the
> man page for xset, but this seems to be the way it is done:
> 
>    xset r rate 300 60
> 
> (It wasn't 100% clear from the man page that the keyword "rate"
> has to be literally there, as shown above, in the command line.)
> 

Glad it works.  In the SYNOPSIS it shows "r rate delay {rate]."

> Thanks again.  This is WAY better than having to edit xorg.conf
> files anyway.
>

I have a number of xhost and xset commands in my .xinitrc.  In particlar
"xset -dpms" bacause I don't want my screen to sleep.  It's very convenient.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn