Where are monitor etc. settings kept?

[Scott Bicknell]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 8:09:01 am 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?

/etc/X11/xorg.conf should be the proper location for X settings. 
The release notes for both 7.10 and 8.04 suggest that this has 
not changed. Both files make reference to xorg.conf as the place 
to store settings and neither says it is located anywhere else. 
I have not hand-edited that file since I used Slackware, but the 
release notes for both versions say that editing this file can 
be done to affect changes in the X environment.
-- 
Scott