P.D.: Excuse me my bad english. I'm spanish ;) 2018-06-07 16:42 GMT+02:00 <liberamenso10...@gmail.com>:
> About contributions to Hurd, I like to help in desktop bugs. I found many > bugs or not implemented tasks, that I desire to solve. > > - Add support to other desktop manager than xdm: Currently, the only > functional DM is xdm. Lightdm is installed by default during Xfce > installation, but don't runs. I would like to solve this. > > - Add support to change tty after xorg start: Currently, when you starts > xorg, you can't to return to tty, which causes many bizzarres situations, > as close xorg... From xorg, or stop the DM from the DE terminal emulator > (it is so bizarre, and use to cause problems). I will like to solve this > also. > > - Enable polkit support: when the DE starts, this don't have permissions > to shutdown the system from graphical environment. The most standard > solution to this is to use polkit to allow actions to users. I found that > Hurd has polkit installed, but feels that It isn't used. May be interesting > enable it. > > Other interesting thing can be recover the hard shutdown (shutdown > machine, not only the system), but It feels so difficult. > > My knowledge is so limited. I have experience with bash scripting and > GNU/Linux administration. I have also knowledge of C++ and basic C. In > classroom I learn a bit about POSIX process management, with fork(), > execl(), fifos, pipes and message queue. But I never touched the deep of a > OS. > > Now I'm searching a Pentium 4 computer to try Hurd installation in real > machine. Previously I got a successfully installation in a 2000's AMD > computer, but this PC is so slow to run the DE correctly. > > If you are in Facebook's GNU/Hurd group, you can to read about my > experiments with Hurd in Virtualbox and in the real PC. I was talking with > Thomas Schwindge in this group. > > Now I have to study my exams, but someday I would to contribute to Hurd > project > > El Jueves 7 de junio de 2018, Samuel Thibault escribió: > > Joshua Branson, le jeu. 07 juin 2018 09:56:31 -0400, a ecrit: > > > P.S. Samuel feel free to let me know if this email sounded too > presumptuous. > > > > It doesn't sound so to me. Thanks for writing it :) > > > > (I just doubt that much business can be done with the Hurd, but who > > knows :) ) > > > > Samuel > > > > > > -- > Enviado desde mi Jolla
