On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:01:18PM -0700, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > I've just switched from LinuxPPC to Debian, and I'm trying to get my setup > back to the way I like it. I'm using Xpmac.rev9 (since rev10 has broken > accelleration on the CT65550) and I put the name of Xserver in > /etc/X11/Xserver, and it starts from gdm fine. > > However, I can't add options (like --middlekey or --rightkey) to the > command line in Xserver. Should I write a wrapper script to invoke Xpmac > with the right options, or is there a more "debianesque" way to pass > options to the Xserver?
/etc/X11/Xserver really just specifies who gets run when /usr/X11R6/bin/X is executed (instead of making X a symlink and requiring each server to be suid root). It is the responsibility of some other program to run the X server, and determine its arguments. Are you running xdm, or gdm (there may be a large footprint on the screen?) If you are running gdm, the file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf has a section near the bottom called [servers]. You should find a line like this: 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 feel free to change this to 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 --middlekey xxx --rightkey xxx xdm, likewise, also has a configuration option that runs the server. I don't have a machine handy to look at, but I think the file is Xservers. David Brown
