From d3df4d0b8832f708632eee08ab3f6a85ff7136f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:43:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] At the beginning of the "Configuring X11" section, mention
the fact that Xorg, nowadays, can often run without any configuration file.
PR: docs/119233
Submitted by: Chess Griffin <chess@chessgriffin.com>
---
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
index 69fd6a8aff..d4935b3474 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
@@ -402,7 +402,15 @@
<sect2>
<title>Configuring X11</title>
- <para>Configuration of X11 is
+ <para>As of version 7.3, <application>&xorg;</application> can
+ often work without any configuration file by simply typing at
+ prompt:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>startx</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>If this does not work, or if the default configuration is
+ not acceptable, then X11 must be configured manually.
+ Configuration of X11 is
a multi-step process. The first step is to build an initial
configuration file.
As the super user, simply