Re: Modular X or system X?

[Ian Clark <mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 20 August 2015 at 11:58, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> On 20 August 2015 at 11:56, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>>> Does the built-in xorg support custom files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ ?
>>
>> If this is a Xorg feature, it shoudl.
>
>
> My last installation was 6.1.3 (late 2013) over amd64 and I'm pretty
> sure this feature wasn't there. When did NetBSD switch over to
> modular?

From a local install of 6.0.1, man xorg.conf gives:

DESCRIPTION
       Xorg uses a configuration file called xorg.conf and files ending in the
       suffix .conf from the directory __xconfigdir__ for its initial setup.
[...]
       Additional configuration files are searched for in the following
       directories when the server is started as a normal user:

           /etc/X11/<cmdline>
           __sysconfdir__/X11/<cmdline>
           /etc/X11/__xconfigdir__
           __sysconfdir__/X11/__xconfigdir__

       where <cmdline> is a relative path (with no ``..'' components)
       specified with the -configdir command line option.

       When the Xorg server is started by the ``root'' user, the config
       directory search locations are as follows:

           <cmdline>
           /etc/X11/<cmdline>
           __sysconfdir__/X11/<cmdline>
           /etc/X11/__xconfigdir__
           __sysconfdir__/X11/__xconfigdir__

       where <cmdline> is the path specified with the -configdir command line
       option (which may be absolute or relative).

Additonally starting it:

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"

I put a dummy broken file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (which I had to
create) and got the following:

Parse error on line 1 of section (null) in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/foo.conf
        "broken" is not a valid keyword in this section.


so it looks like it's supported. :)

Cheers,

Ian