Kean Johnston wrote (in a message from Friday 7)
> All,
>
> I've just been playing with getting XDM working. It required
> a small patch for OpenServer (which I will submit shortly)
> but I am running into something quite weird. They keyboard
> seems to be behaving very differently when using xdm. For
> example, the grey delete key on a US keyboard is always
> seen as KP_Delete, not Delete as it should be. I used xev
> to test this.
>
> Can anyone offer any insight as to why the keyboard behaves
> differently when using xdm versus running startx from a
> command line prompt? Any and all help greatly appreciated.
>
My guess is that xkbcomp is failing in one case and not the other.
One of the differences is that xdm starts the X server as root (with
euid == ruid == 0) while startx relies on the setuid bit on the X
server to get root access. (euid == 0, ruid != 0).
Matthieu
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