Am Dienstag, 22. Juli 2014, 17:48:24 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > To be able to save/restore the XKB keymap in a /etc/pm/sleep.d script > (as a workaround for Debian bug 633849), xkbcomp needs to have access > to the display. The simplest solution I've found is a > > xhost +si:localuser:root > > in my .xsession file.
I think more fine grained would be to use xauth extract / xauth merge. Or just: export XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority :) > I thought that this would be more or less equivalent to the current > status as root can due pretty much anything, such as getting the > user's X authority file via /proc/*/environ (my sleep.d script > could do the same thing, but this is a rather dirty solution). Hmmm, okay, so tought about this solution. Why do you think it is dirty? > > [*] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00045.html > http://superuser.com/a/573839 (This one even says that this > isn't much different from a raw "xhost +"!) Well root can always set XAUTHORITY to some random user .Xauthority file, so I don´t see much of a difference. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2103187.irEKAJ1Ojq@merkaba
