Re: see which X11 config is being used

[Théo Maxime Tyburn]

Hi Kaelyn,

thanks, that helped! I just learned by scrolling the guix-devel archives
that log files are conventionaly gathered in /var/log in guix. I wasn’t
aware of that. Is it documented somewhere ?

Cheers,
Théo

Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com> writes:

> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, April 29th, 2022 at 6:08 AM, Théo Maxime Tyburn 
> <theo.tyburn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to look at the final config file for xorg that was generated in
>> the system definition. I looked into
>> /var/guix/profiles/system/profile/share/X11/ with no success. Where
>> could I find it ? Could it also be possible to generate it directly in
>> scheme in the guix repl ?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Théo
>
>
> Hi Théo,
>
> I'm not sure about a more direct way of determining the path to the
> final xorg config (I'm still trying to learn/discover how to find the
> right path to various generated configs like that where there are
> multiple versions in /gnu/store), but if you've (attempted to) run
> xorg with your current system profile you can find the paths in
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. For example, lines 14-16 of my Xorg.0.log:
>
> [    30.068] (++) Using config file: 
> "/gnu/store/w1zvqxc4vzkifpjrs07is7qs3h3x3g1x-xserver.conf"
> [    30.068] (++) Using config directory: 
> "/gnu/store/srgk57icx1mv689ildw2937ik6pyw9q3-xorg.conf.d"
> [ 30.068] (==) Using system config directory
> "/gnu/store/hllpqzv60p9vakrb2p98fvfksdqwcc9j-xorg-server-21.1.2/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>
> HTH!
>
> Cheers,
> Kaelyn