[CentOS] centos x11

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Wed Jul 13 20:47:38 UTC 2011


Ron Blizzard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com> wrote:
> 
>> the reason that you don't want an xorg.conf file is that multiple users can have different display settings instead of being locked in by an overall configuration file.
> 
> Okay. But I've always left my root account at default video settings
> and changed my user account's video settings, and it seemed to work
> fine that way before? But, I think, once you install the proprietary
> nVidia driver, that an xorg.conf is built anyhow -- so this probably
> won't be an issue for me.
> 
xorg.conf only defines what resolutions, depths,... *can* be selected. 
You can add 100000x50000 pixels in xorg.conf and never ever use it. 
Users resolution is set in Gnome/KDE, not in xorg.conf.

Ljubomir



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