[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#584502: Bug#584502: race condition

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 25.06.2010, 07:17 +0800 schrieb jidanni at jidanni.org:
> It turns out all along that it must be a race condition.
> 
> I.e., some parts of nodm have not fully handed the terminal over to the
> user as fast as seems. This never happened with xdm.
> 
> $ cat .xsession
> j=zh_TW.UTF-8; export LANG=$j LC_CTYPE=$j
> s=sleep\ 5 j=C; export LC_COLLATE=$j LC_MESSAGES=$j
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM GTK_IM_MODULE=xim; scim -d
> export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority #for emacs as root, grass
> j=~/.bash_profile; test -f $j && . $j
> ( sleep 11 && #bug 584502: nodm race condition.
> #if no delay, then on some machines won't be effective!
> xmodmap - <<\EOF

this looks like a known bug in the X server: xmodmap does not work if
run _before_ the first keypress. I observe it with gdm and auto-login.
If you use xdm without auto-login it explains why you can not reproduce
it.

Please check if you are affected by
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16364
or one of
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24552
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12523

Greetings,
Joachim

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