Re: too much stuff

Karl Larsen writes:

I have looked at my /etc/X11/ directory and it is full of strange
things:

root@karl-desktop:/etc/X11# ls
app-defaults X xorg.conf.nvidia
Xsession.options
cursors xinit Xresources XvMCConfig
default-display-manager xkb xserver
Xwrapper.config
fonts xorg.conf Xsession
rgb.txt xorg.conf.failsafe Xsession.d

I know xorg.conf is the file read but what do all the others do? Is
there a place to read about this?

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCX11CONFIGURATIONFORTHEXWINDOWS

You can also check the manpages of the following packages which
potentially have configuration files in /etc/X11:

$ dpkg -S /etc/X11
xload, xfontsel, editres, xkbutils, xrgb, xfd, beforelight, xclock, oclock, xfonts-base, xmessage, xfonts-scalable, xconsole, xfonts-100dpi, gnome-session, x11-common, xfonts-75dpi, xsm, xgc, tetex-base, xmore, xterm, dbus, xvidtune, xman, xmag, xditview, bitmap, xinit, gdm, xscreensaver-data, xcalc, xcursor-themes, xlockmore, viewres, xclipboard, xlogo, imake, xkeyboard-config: /etc/X11

HTH,

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