[SOLVED] How to make changes in xorg.conf permanent?

[a1234]

Here is the sit:

I have a partition on my mBP3 as an ubuntu persistence and is doing well except for the changes made in xorg.conf to enable scrolling for my BT mouse. Every time I reboot xorg.conf updated itself and made a copy of my change with some 12 digit # in thhe folder X11. Even though I stop trying it is still generating copies.

Question 1) Anyway of making the changes permanent?
2) If not how to stop the copy from forming?


Thanks below is the link to the changes. Apparently no problem with regular install. Just unique in Persitence!

http://peterc.org/2008/64-how-to-enable-vertical-mouse-wheel-scrolling-in-ubuntu-hardy-on-vmware-fusion.html

[a1234]

No taker?

[frog_pilot]

you need root privileges to change the files outside your home folder. It should be documented in almost any ubuntu-wiki available on the web.

for gnome execute
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf


for kde
sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf



now you will have write access to xorg.conf.

[a1234]

you need root privileges to change the files outside your home folder. It should be documented in almost any ubuntu-wiki available on the web.

for gnome execute
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf


for kde
sudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf



now you will have write access to xorg.conf.

That was the first thing I did to enable scrolling. My problem is the editting is ?archived by the ?Xserver like so

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo -s
root@ubuntu:~# cd /etc/X11
root@ubuntu:/etc/X11# ls
app-defaults xkb Xresources
cursors xorg.conf xserver
default-display-manager xorg.conf.20080601060008 Xsession
fonts xorg.conf.20080601060705 Xsession.d
rgb.txt xorg.conf.20080601061714 Xsession.options
X xorg.conf.20080601155619 Xwrapper.config
xinit xorg.conf.20080601160029
root@ubuntu:/etc/X11#

As you can see the gedited ones are in red and the xorg.conf is the unedited one generated everytime I reboot. As you can see from the user that this is in persistence mode. I am assuming that editting the xorgconf is not possible. Any thought ?

[frog_pilot]

Not the ls of the folder is the thing...

What do you do on saving your changes? Choose "save as" and type xorg.conf

Or figure out your preferred xorg.conf backup and execute e.g.

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080601155619 /etc/X11/xorg.conf

BTW You dont need to log in as root in ubuntu at all. sudo -s
sudo -su doesnt meet the ubuntu policy... :)

[a1234]

Thanks for the advise. I did this to make the changes permanent.

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN XORG INFO
# Provides: xorg.onf
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: enable same xorg.conf
### END XORG INFO

cp -rf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080604052700 /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It did the trick. But the scrolling is still not working.

[russo.mic]

I still don't understand why you don't just execute gedit or kate to edit xorg.conf directly. or nano, or whatever.

Your editing the backup copies then copying them over xorg.conf.

Seems like a roundabout way of getting there. as long as you execute the edit command with sudo in front, there should be no trouble.

Russo

[cyberdork33]

I think that the main thing everyone is missing here is that he is running in persistence mode... I think that means he is running Ubuntu from the LiveCD, and storing session data on a thumbdrive or something (a partition on his hard drive it sounds like).
http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=10142

He edits xorg.conf, but then when he starts up again, xorg.conf is regenerated replacing his customized file. Now, he is essentially copying the backup back over the original on each boot so that he gets his custom config back.

nano vs kate vs gedit, etc doesn't matter. You whatever editor you want.