Bug#471521: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-20 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Damyan, * Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-20 09:46]: > -=| Trent W. Buck, Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:55:05PM +1100 |=- > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:50:49PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > > [...] sets XAUTHORITY to /home/root/.Xauthority. [...] > I guess it is not very hard to spot a

Bug#471521: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:26:27PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: >> Also note that gdm uses a pseudorandomly-named temporary file in >> /tmp rather than ~user/.Xauthority, so the current dance will not >> work for them. > > FYI, my gnome (from sid) somehow manages to show the OSD notifications > abou

Bug#471521: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:26:24PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: >> Also note that gdm uses a pseudorandomly-named temporary file in >> /tmp rather than ~user/.Xauthority, so the current dance will not >> work for them. > > That's sad but there is currently no sane way to do this. I know. For the reco

Bug#471521: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-18 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Trent, * Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 19:09]: > hotkey.sh does an XAUTHORITY dance to allow root to attach X clients > to a running server. vga-toggle.sh does not do this, and thus its > xrandr commands fail. Looks like the vga-toogle funtion doesn't know anything about XAUTH

Bug#471521: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-18 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Trent W. Buck, Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:38:04AM +1100 |=- > Also note that gdm uses a pseudorandomly-named temporary file in /tmp > rather than ~user/.Xauthority, so the current dance will not work for > them. FYI, my gnome (from sid) somehow manages to show the OSD notifications about volume c