Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:57:04 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>, DS@praxisvermittlung24.de, "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@freebsd.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section Message-ID: <49F60000.5010806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87zle2aq58.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <49ED0056.5010706@gmail.com> <49ED7000.70904@praxisvermittlung24.de> <49ED7C59.80808@gmail.com> <87zle2aq58.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:57:13 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/x11.diff >>>> > > I a bit unsure about the .xinitrc and .xsession remove & restore dance > suggested in the patch. > > I'm inside a GDM session now and cannot test this, but I think the > following should work without changing anything in the default .xinitrc > or .xsession file of the user: > > $ startx /usr/local/bin/xterm -- :1 > > I'll test this a few minutes later, but if it works most of the new text > of the patch is not necessary. > > > Fact is I found (someone posted it in questions I think) that you can test the Xorg "the old way" by using the -retro switch: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new -retro I've tested this and it works fine, so I will probably revise the patch tomorrow - this will make it a lot smaller.
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