On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Thorsten Frueauf wrote:
> Hello Klaus et al,
>
> > is anyone using startx (with Xwrapper) and a non-us keymap (in my case,
> > 'de') in ~/.xserverrc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc?
>
> Yes, I noticed that it failed for over two year I guess, but never bothered
> to find out why cause I mainly use my amiga remote these days. Gunther Nikl
> mentioned the problem at 01.02.2001 on this list too.
>
> > According to the source code (xc/programs/Xserver/xkb/ddxLoad.c), if the
> > X server runs with a real uid of 0 it uses /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/
> > else /var/tmp.
> > Shouldn't this be a check for the effective uid instead, which is set
> > to 0 by Xwrapper?
In this case it is a userland issue - can you forward the discussion and
analysis to tech-userlevel please for further comments?
Regards,
Ignatios
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