[gentoo-user] Registering X session when using startx
Folks,
This is philosophical rather than practical, but I'm struggling with it
and I would appreciate your view.
I normally use startx for logging in X, because that gives me enough
flexibility (much more than XDM, 'cause I can open as much servers as
needed *when* they are actually needed) not requiring, at the same
time, the use of *kit stuff (on my primary laptop I use CDM
- https://github.com/ghost1227/cdm - but it doesn't really matter).
Of course, X sessions are not logged into the utmp/wtmp DBs like it
happens using XDM.
Even if I could live without that, I would prefer to avoid any
inconsistencies and, of course, who/w/last commands could be useful for
multi-user systems administration.
So I'm trying to recover their functionality.
XDM has its own mechanism in /etc/X11/xdm/{Xstartup,Xreset} to log the
details using sessreg, but since startx is run as normal user, it isn't
reusable within my scope.
There are a very few info on the matter (see e.g.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466104, closed as
WONTFIX) so it seems I'm alone...
I tried a bunch of WAs in order to be able to use the sessreg command
within ~/.xinitrc:
1) setuid /usr/bin/sessreg: possibly multiple security holes;
2) use sudo: I really don't understand why, but that doesn't work; I
mean, the output from who/w is different w.r.t. the expected one (there
is no line related to the active X session, even if the reported number
of users seems ok);
3) adding users to utmp group (which is equivalent to open /var/run/utmp
and /var/log/wtmp in writing to all); this is my favorite hack at the
moment, but I feel it is still suboptimal.
Any hints? Other strategies adopted? Suggestions related to point 2)?
I'm looking forward to hearing from gurus!
Thanks for your time
--
Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
[mailto:just22@gmail.com]
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newsbeuter - Cannot set element colors
On Tue 03/12, Roman Dobosz wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:32:57 +0100 Alessandro DE LAURENZIS just22@gmail.com wrote: Really weird behavior; I'm just following the documentation: […] just22@egeo:[~]$ newsbeuter XDG: configuration directory '/home/just22/.config/newsbeuter' not accessible, using '/home/just22/.newsbeuter' instead. Starting newsbeuter 2.6... Loading configuration...Error while processing command `color background white black bold' (/home/just22/.newsbeuter/config line 5): `bold' is not a valid color Any hints? You have something different from space between background and white (you can check it editing that file in vim, placing the cursor on that space and pressing g8 in normal mode) - 0xC2 0xA0 instead of 0x20. Looks like you were able to copy nbsp; somehow :) Just get rid of the spaces and replace them with real one (changing encoding to pure ascii may help). cheers. gryf My only comment is: GREAT! Thank you very much, this stuff was making me crazy. I would not be able to solve it without your help. Cheers -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
[gentoo-user] Newsbeuter - Cannot set element colors
Really weird behavior; I'm just following the documentation: just22@egeo:[~]$ cat ./.newsbeuter/config # Browser command browser dwb %u # Color scheme color background white black but when I try to launch the reader, it complains this way: just22@egeo:[~]$ newsbeuter XDG: configuration directory '/home/just22/.config/newsbeuter' not accessible, using '/home/just22/.newsbeuter' instead. Starting newsbeuter 2.6... Loading configuration...Error while processing command `color background white black' (/home/just22/.newsbeuter/config line 5): too few parameters. I tried also to add optional attributes: just22@egeo:[~]$ cat ./.newsbeuter/config # Browser command browser dwb %u # Color scheme color background white black bold but no luck: just22@egeo:[~]$ newsbeuter XDG: configuration directory '/home/just22/.config/newsbeuter' not accessible, using '/home/just22/.newsbeuter' instead. Starting newsbeuter 2.6... Loading configuration...Error while processing command `color background white black bold' (/home/just22/.newsbeuter/config line 5): `bold' is not a valid color Any hints? -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
[gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split
I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very old thread on the subject: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328 which contains the original communication of the ebuild split and some discussions and observations that probably are no more applicable. I'm absolutely convinced that one of the gentoo strengths is the USE variable handling compile time options, so I do not see any points to split packages when not absolutely needed. In case of vim-core/vim/gvim (and vim-qt?), I cannot understand the reason... Are still there advantages in doing so? Thanks for your time -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
