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

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

Tom Rauchenwald wrote:
> 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

I tried this and it worked well with files that didn't exist but didn't work well with 
synaptic which already exists. Will try again though, thanks