Re: What is the correct way to overide hal defaults?

[emikaadeo <emikaadeo@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0200, Tom Rauchenwald  
<sehnsucht.nach.unendlichkeit@quantentunnel.de> wrote:

> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes:
>
> > I want to change the default settings for my synaptic touchpad in X. I  
> > tried
> > changing /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi  
> > but it
> > keeps getting written over during upgrades. Is there a better way to do  
> > this so
> > it won't get erased every time?
>
> Put your changed file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/, and it should be
> used by hal and it won't be touched on upgrades.
>
> > Thanks
>
> -tom
 The corect place for these modified files is in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/