Perhaps restarting X is bit what you want. Would this approach work.... Install the bluetooth GUI in the chroot. Add an xinitrc.d script in: /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/xinitrc.d/ (say I00-bluetooth) that runs the GUI if there is a magic trackpad.
-Gadi On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Philip Loewen <phi...@tidepool.ca> wrote: > I'm trying to get my new Apple Magic Trackpad to work with an LTSP > Client served from Ubuntu 10.10. Bluetooth pairing is giving me trouble, > because Ubuntu has chosen a "modern" bluetooth stack in which there > seems to be no known way to achieve a pairing without using a GUI. I > have figured out enough of this to get the trackpad paired with the > client after logging in to the latter. Basic mouse functions seem to > work, but not robustly: touching two spots at once crashes the > connection. In Ubuntu, multitouch requires the "synaptics" driver in X. > Now in order to initialize this driver, the X server wants to probe the > trackpad at startup. According to Xorg.7.log, when the probe fails the > "synaptics" module is abandoned and unloaded. This is a graphical > analogue of dependency hell: the trackpad won't start without X, and X > won't play nice unless the trackpad starts first. > > Perhaps I can try pairing the device using X once, with poor > performance, and then hoping some low level process in the system can > remember this fact while I restart X on the client. The question for > now, as in the subject, is How do I restart X? [My client setup has a > root shell running on VT6. Simply killing X is apparently the wrong > approach: it ... well ... simply kills X.] > > Thanks! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
