The standard naming convention for the X configuration file is now
XF86Config-4 for the 4.x versions, to allow 3.x to exist along side 4.x. I
see the old XF86Config name is retained in Slackware. I read that the
enumeration will eventually fall through to XF86Config, but is there
anything specific to Slackware I should be aware of that would prevent me
from creating and using a XF86Config-4 named configuration file?

Robert J. Sprawls wrote:
> The standard naming convention for the X configuration file is now
> XF86Config-4 for the 4.x versions, to allow 3.x to exist along side 4.x. I
> see the old XF86Config name is retained in Slackware. I read that the
> enumeration will eventually fall through to XF86Config, but is there
> anything specific to Slackware I should be aware of that would prevent me
> from creating and using a XF86Config-4 named configuration file?

from man XF86Config:

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DESCRIPTION

XFree86 uses a configuration file called XF86Config for its initial
setup. This configuration file is searched for in the following
places when the server is started as a normal user:

/etc/X11/<cmdline>
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11/<cmdline>
/etc/X11/$XF86CONFIG
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11/$XF86CONFIG
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
/etc/X11/XF86Config
/etc/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config.<hostname>
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.<hostname>
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config-4
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config

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so what happens is that X searches for its config file and will consider
XF86Config-4 before XF86Config. that's all there is to it.

in general, you can be pretty sure that Pat won't introduce anything
unexpected or obscure.

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Robert J. Sprawls wrote :

> I read that the enumeration will eventually fall through to
> XF86Config, but is there anything specific to Slackware I should be
> aware of that would prevent me from creating and using a XF86Config-4
> named configuration file?

There's nothing Slackware specific here. If you run 'man XF86Config'
you'll see which config files are accepted and in what order they are
preferred by XFree86.

So if you create a XF86Config-4 file it will be used instead of the old
XF86Config file.
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