Re: What is the correct way to overide hal defaults?
emikaadeo <emikaadeo@gmail.com> writes:
> 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/
Damn, thanks for correcting me, obviously I haven't slept enough -- I
wanted to write that path.
Tom
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