Package: xbase-clients Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Followup-For: Bug #270887 If you try to invoke X like this:
$ startx -- -screen "Some Screen"
or
$ startx -- -layout "Some Layout"
where "Some Screen" and "Some Layout" are IDs of some screen or layout
as defined in /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
it will fail, due to the way that startx processes arguments.
The previous poster attached a patch that could be trivially extended to
cover the code that parses server arguments in 'startx'.
Nevertheless, if the default names at /etc/X11/xorg.conf where more like
default_screen, or default_layout (no spaces), at least the server
related section of the bug would be alleviated, and, for that matter, the
incantation would be easier to type.
[eight years using debian and this is my first bug report, shame on me!]
Thanks for the hard work, guys.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-rc5
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.0.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdmx1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii libdps1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Font Server library
ii libglu1-xorg [libglu1] 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Mesa OpenGL utility library [X.Org
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Session Management
ii libxau6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Authentication library
ii libxaw8 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Athena widget set library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxkbfile1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Keyboard Extension file parsing
ii libxkbui1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Keyboard Extension user interfac
ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Screen Saver client-side library
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtrap6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii libxtst6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System event recording an
ii libxv1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System video extension li
ii libxxf86dga1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Direct Graphics Access extension
ii libxxf86misc1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X miscellaneous extensions library
ii libxxf86vm1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Video Mode selection library
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Mesa 3D graphics library [X.Org]
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client libraries m
ii xlibs-data 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client data
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime
xbase-clients recommends no packages.
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Pancho Horrillo
To be conscious that
you are ignorant is a great step
to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
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