<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:49 PM, <<a href="mailto:spitzak@gmail.com" target="_blank">spitzak@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> From: Bill Spitzak <<a href="mailto:spitzak@gmail.com">spitzak@gmail.com</a>> Otherwise it is rather hard to test xwayland and still have a working X11. There are numerous other instances of %P in the code, in all cases I think the paths need to be edited so that the prefix is looked in first (or at all) before /etc is. --- </blockquote></div> For what it's worth, xwayland has always found my xorg.conf automatically in $prefix/etc/X11/ where prefix is a nonstandard path. I'm not really sure why you need a 'global' xorg.conf if you're using open drivers to begin with.