[5454] in Release_7.7_team
public rhlinux X configuration issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu May 4 13:37:45 2006
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 13:37:39 -0400
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From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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There's an athena-ws postinstall scriptlet as well as a script run at
boot time which purport to force various parts of the X configuration to
settings we want, specifically a resolution of 1280x1024x24 and enabling
of the DontZap server option (the latter preventing the server from being
killed with the control-alt-backspace chord).
Neither of these currently do what they're supposed to do, given the name
changes that the X configuration change has undergone; currently they do
their thing at least once since we install at 9.3 (under which at least
one of the scripts works), but this all loses with native 9.4 installs,
and there's nothing to ensure continuity once the 9.4 update is taken.
Fixing the scripts is easy enough, but an argument is made in bugs[26794]
and subsequent that being able to kill the X server with a keypress is a
good thing. I personally find it useful as well, and it's the de facto
default on cluster machines, so I'm inclined towards leaving it off,
though at a previous release team meeting we came up with the opposite
conclusion.
Any thoughts? We can talk about this at the meeting next week if it's
warranted.
