Gnome Ignoring Xorg confs

Jedipottsy · 2016-10-20 12:06:43

Hi,
I have my system setup and working fine under Plasma5 and i3, xorg conf files to set keyboard (10-keyboard.conf), a mouse file to disable acceleration (50-mouse-acceleration.conf) and nvidia to set resolution and refresh rate (99-nvidia.conf)

gnome and gnome base sessions (budgie) completely ignore these conf files. Is there something i have to do to ensure they work? Using nvidia binary, and nvidia settings shows that im running Xorg 1.18.4, with the 370.28 drivers.

Thanks

Trilby · 2016-10-20 12:10:59

As of a recent update, Gnome doesn't use Xorg anymore, so of course it ignores xorg.conf files. If you want gnome to run on xorg instead of wayland, follow the wiki

Trilby · 2016-10-20 12:13:58

You seem to have hit report rather than reply:

Jedipottsy wrote:

I am using Xorg, not wayland. First thing i checked, but as far as i am aware wayland doesnt support the NVIDIA driver anyway?

I don't really know anything about wayland or NVIDIA, but your symptoms are *exactly* what would be expected if running on wayland. How did you check that you are running on Xorg? Nvidia settings is an X11 program, so it would run under XWayland potentially giving the appearance of X running.

Jedipottsy · 2016-10-20 12:25:09

Trilby wrote:

You seem to have hit report rather than reply:
Jedipottsy wrote:
I am using Xorg, not wayland. First thing i checked, but as far as i am aware wayland doesnt support the NVIDIA driver anyway?
I don't really know anything about wayland or NVIDIA, but your symptoms are *exactly* what would be expected if running on wayland. How did you check that you are running on Xorg? Nvidia settings is an X11 program, so it would run under XWayland potentially giving the appearance of X running.

sorry about the report, rather than reply. Changing the screen resolution in nvidia settings changes the resolution of the display. I'm also sure i selected gnome xorg as the login option.
If i am using Wayland, how do i specify libinput parameters (as budgie doesnt have a budgie xorg option)?

Jedipottsy · 2016-10-20 12:38:10

Pretty sure im running Xorg

[jedipottsy@Poseidon ~]$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
[jedipottsy@Poseidon ~]$ echo $WAYLAND_DISPLAY

[jedipottsy@Poseidon ~]$root     10702  2.0  0.3 268800 56416 tty1     Ss+  13:00   0:39 /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{cb9b9f83-392c-44c4-9f4a-4534bbab068a} -background none -noreset -displayfd 19 vt1

Managed to fix mouse acceleration by altering the dconf profile to flat

/org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/mouse/accel-profile 'flat'
/org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/mouse/speed 0

Last edited by Jedipottsy (2016-10-20 12:39:34)

Trilby · 2016-10-20 13:54:31

Yes, it looks like you are running in xorg - sorry for the noise. It wasn't clear at the start, and this really does resemble a wayland issue, but it must be something else.

seth · 2016-10-20 15:05:25

You figured the key. The settings are not "ignored" but overridden by some startup config/scripts in gnome. This will most likely hold for the resolution and keyboard as well, so use the gnome control center to configure the screen and keyboard setup you desire. :-(

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Gnome Ignoring Xorg confs

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