Where are monitor etc. settings kept?

Martin Laberge mlsoft at videotron.ca
Thu May 22 19:51:06 UTC 2008


On Thursday 22 May 2008 11:09:01 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? 
> -- 
> John Culleton
> Resources for every author and publisher:
> http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
> http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
> http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm
> http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
> 

I think that the settings are auto-detected by X at startup
my xorg.conf here, started with all sections empty (except name)
I just added wat was needed to tweak, if needed.

-- 
Martin Laberge
mlsoft at videotron.ca
Tel:(418)521-6823




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