Major stylistic cleanups, greatly expanded cross-reference ("SEE ALSO")
section and some typo fixes.
This patch by Branden Robinson. Forward-ported by Fabio M. Di Nitto.
This provides a new option, UseDefaultFontPath. This option is enabled by
default, and causes the X server to always append the default font path
(defined at compile time) to the font path for the server. This will allow
people to specify additional font paths if they want without breaking
their font path, thus hopefully avoiding ye olde "fixed front" problem.
Because this option is a ServerFlag option, the ServerFlags need to be
processed before the files section of the config file, so swap the order
that they are processed.
Provide default modules that may be overrided easily. Previously the
server would load a set of default modules, but only if none were
specified in the xorg.conf, or if you didn't have a xorg.conf at all. This
patch provides a default set and you can add only the "Load" instructions
to xorg.conf that you want without losing the defaults. Similarly, if you
don't want to load a module that's loaded by default, you can add "Disable
modulename" to your xorg.conf (see man xorg.conf in this release for
details). This allows for a minimal "Modules" section, where the user only
need specify what they want to be different. See bug #10541 for more.
The list of default modules is taken from the set loaded by default when
there was a xorg.conf containing no "Modules" section.
A potential problem for some users is that some users disable a module,
most notably DRI, by commenting out the "Load" line in their xorg.conf.
This needs to be changed to an uncommented "Disable" line, as DRI is
loaded by default.
- Added -extension & +extension to Xserver man page
- Changed Xorg synopsis from X11R6 to X11R7
- Clarified Xorg ancestry description
- Moved Solaris to free/Open Source OS list
- Removed references to MetroLink module loader & getconfig
- Converted (1) to (__appmansuffix__) in a few more places
- Replaced http://www.freedesktop.org/cvs/ with http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/
As discussed on the mailing list, people would rather have an X command-line
option to print the module path so installers can know where to put modules,
rather than the installers using `pkg-config --variable=moduledir xorg-server`,
since some distros choose not to install xorg-server.pc.
