On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 20:14:17 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Please keep the Debian FSO Team [1] mailing list always Cc:ed. If you > do so, no need to cc: me, I read the list. > > I discovered these issues because of the Xglamo KDrive server [2]. The > problem is described also at [3]. > > Basically, AFAIK xinit/startx requires both /etc/X11/X and /usr/bin/X: > let's see both in details, at least as I understood the situation. > Since I'm not an X11 expert, feel free to point me at documentation I > need to read :-) > /usr/bin/X is a setuid wrapper, which does some basic permission checks and then exec()s /etc/X11/X. So /etc/X11/X should point to the actual X server you want to use when running /usr/bin/X.
startx/xinit run /usr/bin/X by default, but can just as well start any other X server (be it /usr/bin/Xephyr, /usr/bin/Xvfb or /usr/bin/Xglamo) based on /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, $HOME/.xserverrc or command-line arguments. There used to be some logic to change the /etc/X11/X symlink via debconf until about a year ago (it used to be needed when we had hardware specific X servers, which means before XFree86 4.0 iirc), so it might be possible to reintroduce that if you feel that Xglamo need it. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]