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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| 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.
> > Ah, could it be the bad home directory? root's HOME is /root!
> >
> > Changing the code to
> >   home=`getent passwd $user | cut -d: -f6`
> >   XAUTHORITY=$home/.Xauthority
> 
> This is a separate bug and should be split out: eeepc-acpi-scripts
> assumes foo's home is /home/foo.

Fixed in Git already.

> It's worth remembering that users can customize the scripts (since
> they're conffiles), and that therefore it's probably best to aim for
> 
>   - understandability, so that a regular user can understand the
>     scripts enough to tweak them to taste; and
> 
>   - rightness, so that the average user doesn't need to make any
>     changes at all.

Full ack.

> For example, since I always use Ratpoison, I've customized my install
> to talk directly to it (RP) instead of using the (much slower,
> generic) aosd_cat.  But it would probably be silly to add code to the
> default scripts to detect and use Ratpoison, except possibly as a note
> in /usr/share/doc/eeepc-acpi-scripts.

I think corner cases may be added to the scripts, but commented out. Or
better, do nothing when the special conditions are not present
(ratpoison not detected).

I guess it is not very hard to spot a running Gnome, Xfce, KDE or
whatever and use their notification services, falling back to aosd_cat.

Back to the original problem, notify() does not do anything when the
display number printed by `who' contains no dots. :0 fails, :0.0 works.
My experience showed that :0.0 only appears if I have some
gnome-terminals running and if they are set to start 'login shells' (the
default). This may explain why it worked for me. If I set gnoem-terminal
to not start 'login shells', then it does not work here too.

What does the output of `who' look like for you?

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