[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#598097: Make detect_x_display go away to solve this

[Paul Menzel]

Am Samstag, den 13.11.2010, 08:20 -0400 schrieb Ben Armstrong:
> After discussing this with a member of the X team, they advise this is
> simply a bad idea (to try to talk to X from acpi scripts).  I've heard
> this advice before and given the difficulty we've had, I have to wonder
> if it isn't time to finally take that seriously.  After all, this key
> sends an XF86Display event, so the WM should bind that to do whatever
> the user wants.  I think in GNOME and KDE, there should be some agent
> that already handles this.  For non-gnome/kde, something could be
> cobbled together with xrandr the way we do already, only not running as
> root.
> 
> I'm going to see what other keys (if any) rely on detect_x_display, and
> see if we can apply the same approach.

Thank you Ben for looking into this. If you need help with for example
filing bug reports upstream or with testing, please say so.


Thanks,

Paul


PS: I want to thank Ben and Luca and everybody else for getting 1.1.11
out and for your support on the list and your work with the Wiki.
PPS: Ben, I am still wondering why it works for you. Did my last example
(running `dectect_x_display` before) also fail for you?
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