Xorg -configure does not work

[Patrick Bär]

Good evening lads and gents,

Xorg nowadays starts without an xorg.conf file. When I start up with startx or startxfce4, everything works well. But if I create a config file with Xorg -configure, this file will not start. What am I missing?

Problem is, that Xorg by default does not detect a closed lid + an external monitor and mirrors the picture on internal and external screen. Also I'd like to adjust anti-aliasing. XFCE has some nice tools, but useless with i3.

 

[wblock@]

Please describe your system CPU and video hardware. What version of FreeBSD is being used?

Auto-generating xorg.conf is not recommended any more. For the monitor setup, I would use xrandr(1). For the antialiasing... no idea, really, I've only set that in xfce.

 

[protocelt]

I may be mistaken but I believe font settings for x11-wm/i3 follow the system font settings for X and can be configured in your ~/.Xresources file. x11-wm/awesome works like this as well.