On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 1 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Walter Bender wrote: > >> Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe >> the console is enough?
That would work nicely for me, though it will work much less well for people who desire the ability to display non-Latin text. > 1) The keyboard map does not match the machines actual keyboard, so > trying to remember US key layout on a Spanish keypad is a nightmare :-) > Anyone know any tricks to correct that? loadkeys us loadkeys es etc. (There may be errors in the console keyboard maps but we fix them as we find them.) > > 2) Often the olpc related scripts I'd be trying to use would have some > hooks into X, and other environment variables. Without a lot of env > hacking/guessing they would just bomb out in console. export DISPLAY=:0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/olpc/.Xauthority # may have moved. Michael _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel