Comment # 15 on bug 1193250 from Thomas Zimmermann

(In reply to Georgios Toptsidis from comment #11)
> After the introduction of this patch that checks /run for config files, i
> noticed that xorg ignored all my config files residing in /etc.
> 
> I may be wrong but looking at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/hw/xfree86/parser/
> scan.c#L798 it seems to me that xorg uses only the first directory that has
> any files in it.
> 
> So, because it finds /run/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-card.conf file generated by
> udev, it ignores everything in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (and i guess also all
> the distro-supplied files in /usr/share).
> 
> My impression is further stengthened by the fact that if i delete the file
> in /run, then my configs are parsed correctly.
> 
> Is this a known - wanted behavior ?
> 
> Thank your for your time.

Thanks for reporting. I opened bug 1193620 to track the problem.