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Re: Configuring hotplugged input devices



On 2019-11-30 at 12:04, deloptes wrote:

> The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> I understand this to mean: "there is a known way to achieve what I
>> want by editing xorg.conf, but I want a solution which can be
>> configured and adjusted by an ordinary user, and thus a solution
>> which requires that the user have permissions to edit xorg.conf is
>> not viable".

> "without root permissions to edit xorg.conf" is contradiction in
> itself as the file (if it exists) is r/w only by root, so you can not
> edit xorg.conf without root permissions.
> 
> What should I say more?!

No, it's not contradictory.

At least by my interprestation, it's just a shorter way of saying
"without needing to edit xorg.conf, since editing xorg.conf requires
root permissions".

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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