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Topic: Why I won't be using DSL, unfortunately

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Curious1

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Posted: July 20 2005,01:10

Also, where is ".xserverrc" at?

cbagger01

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Posted: July 20 2005,12:59

Open emelfm

Press the "H" button at the top of the window pane (to allow the viewing of Hidden files. All files that start with a "." are hidden)

Go to /home/dsl

and it should be there.

Curious1

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Posted: July 20 2005,19:58

How do you add two files into one dsl extension?
And possibly in windows as well.

mikshaw

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Posted: July 20 2005,21:17

It can't be done in windows, since windows does not know how to properly handle file ownerships and permissions (and probably can't build a suitable tar file).

If you know how to make an extension, you know how to add files to it. Basically you'd just be adding /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /home/dsl/.xserverrc to the xfree86.dsl package.
I'm not going to go into the steps again until the forum database gets broken or purged

since the "how do I make a dsl extension" question has been asked here several times...a search should come up with enough info, and there are also some howtos in the documentation section of this site.

I have, however, been planning a gui which will assist in editing DSL extensions, to accompany my extension builder (that currently needs to be fixed =oP). It won't help you right now, of course, but it's something that may help with future projects.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

cbagger01

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Posted: July 21 2005,02:52

Don't bother hacking up the existing xfree86.dsl extension package.

Instead, create a small new custom package zzz_myxfree86.dsl

and put your two files inside.

Because the "z" extensions get loaded after the "x" extensions, your custom files will be loaded last.

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