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