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Brian
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On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:05:24 +0000, Meat Plow wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:46:55 -0500, brian wrote:
>
>> In article <fj6tju$f7a$1@cb.generation-online.de>,
>> Simon Gerber <simugerber@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> brian wrote on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:09:14 -0500:
>>>
>>> > okay, I've hit google and a couple of linux (ubuntu) sites and for
>>> > the life of me I cannot find xorg.conf file. It should be in the
>>> > ~/etc/X11/ folder but it's not (I did a search for it also). I need
>>> > to edit it to use the Gsynaptics touchpad program. I'm using Ubuntu
>>> > 7.10 with gnome (haven't change anything from a clean install from
>>> > the livecd. Does anyone know where I might find it?
>>> >
>>> > tia
>>>
>>> If you mistyped and meant /etc/X11 instead of *~*/etc/X11 then I
>>> cannot see where your xorg.conf might be.
>>>
>>> However if you didn't mistype peek into /etc/X11 where you'll probably
>>> find your xorg.conf.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>
>> Whoops. I thought "~" meant that it is the root directory not the
>> user's. Sorry.
>> I did, however, look into /etc/X11/ and couldn't see it. Do I need to
>> start my file manager as root? I seem to remember other distros having
>> a regular file manager and then one with root privileges. I wonder if
>> that could be the difference.
>>
>>
> Just open a terminal and type slocate xorg.conf.
okay here's what I got
brian@brian-laptop:~$ slocate xorg.conf
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster
/usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf
/usr/share/displayconfig-gtk/xorg.conf.fallback
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/
xorg.conf_disablectrlaltbackspacegnome
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/xorg.conf_disablenvidialogo
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
brian@brian-laptop:~$
it's in the usr folder??
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:46:55 -0500, brian wrote:
>
>> In article <fj6tju$f7a$1@cb.generation-online.de>,
>> Simon Gerber <simugerber@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> brian wrote on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:09:14 -0500:
>>>
>>> > okay, I've hit google and a couple of linux (ubuntu) sites and for
>>> > the life of me I cannot find xorg.conf file. It should be in the
>>> > ~/etc/X11/ folder but it's not (I did a search for it also). I need
>>> > to edit it to use the Gsynaptics touchpad program. I'm using Ubuntu
>>> > 7.10 with gnome (haven't change anything from a clean install from
>>> > the livecd. Does anyone know where I might find it?
>>> >
>>> > tia
>>>
>>> If you mistyped and meant /etc/X11 instead of *~*/etc/X11 then I
>>> cannot see where your xorg.conf might be.
>>>
>>> However if you didn't mistype peek into /etc/X11 where you'll probably
>>> find your xorg.conf.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>
>> Whoops. I thought "~" meant that it is the root directory not the
>> user's. Sorry.
>> I did, however, look into /etc/X11/ and couldn't see it. Do I need to
>> start my file manager as root? I seem to remember other distros having
>> a regular file manager and then one with root privileges. I wonder if
>> that could be the difference.
>>
>>
> Just open a terminal and type slocate xorg.conf.
okay here's what I got
brian@brian-laptop:~$ slocate xorg.conf
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
/var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster
/usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf
/usr/share/displayconfig-gtk/xorg.conf.fallback
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/
xorg.conf_disablectrlaltbackspacegnome
/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/ubuntu/sample/xorg.conf_disablenvidialogo
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
brian@brian-laptop:~$
it's in the usr folder??