[PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section

[Manolis Kiagias]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:57:13 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/x11.diff
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> I a bit unsure about the .xinitrc and .xsession remove & restore dance
> suggested in the patch.
>
> I'm inside a GDM session now and cannot test this, but I think the
> following should work without changing anything in the default .xinitrc
> or .xsession file of the user:
>
>     $ startx /usr/local/bin/xterm -- :1
>
> I'll test this a few minutes later, but if it works most of the new text
> of the patch is not necessary.
>
>
>   
Fact is I found (someone posted it in questions I think) that you can
test the Xorg "the old way" by using the -retro switch:

X -config /root/xorg.conf.new -retro

I've tested this and it works fine, so I will probably revise the patch
tomorrow - this will make it a lot smaller.