Where are monitor etc. settings kept?

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 11:56:05 am Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> >> John Culleton wrote:
> >>> I am used to the Slackware distro where monitor etc. settings are kept
> >>> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  On Ubuntu this file is effectively empty. Are
> >>> Ubuntu and Kubuntu alike in this respect? If so, where are the
> >>> settings for e.g., refresh rates,  color depth, screen sizes etc.
> >>> actually kept?
> >>
> >> what do you mean empty? all my display settings are in this xorg.conf
> >> file! a file full of stuff here.
> >
> > I believe that Hardy made a change to where display settings are
> > stored (no longer "/etc/X11/xorg.conf").  I am not sure about where to
> > look because I haven't made the upgrade yet.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> i dont know, maybe these settings in my xorg.conf are still from the
> days of gutsy, it's been ages since i manually edited anything there, if
> it's true that hardy is not using the file anymore, then it is probably
> a useless file now. if anyone knows anything about this, please tell us

That's where they are here, too, /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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