[gentoo-user] udev + incron wheel's remake : hal/dbus usefulness quest

2009-09-18 Thread gibboris
A small email to sumarize some thoughts about udev, removable storage and incron to make the job of hal and re-invent the wheel. context (skipable) - there is ONE common thing where gnome is quicker than bash : mounting an unknown usb stick. For my own stuff, I already used labels and uu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-14 Thread gibboris
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:58:18PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Real men manage their own /etc/fstab. ;-) +1 (I just noticed that hal creates /media but didn't added it to my fstab, maybe for the 0.5.12 ? :)) > "HAL was responsible for opening almost 2000 files. It will read various XML > fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-14 Thread gibboris
Hello, about the *mandatory* it was a bad expression, I should have said : 'make two new daemons mandatory IF you want to follow the modern-move' :) Of course the 'hal' useflag is such a gentoo nice thing ! I did the xorg+hal switch, but I forgot that hald make use of dbus (I would dreamed about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread gibboris
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:50:09PM -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Dale wrote: > After reading the upgrade guide, it seemed clear to me that my first > attempt would be without hal, and without my old xorg.conf. > > It initially crashed because of some erroneous opengl softlinks > (bugzilla already no

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-22 Thread gibboris
I was thinking about the proper way to set-up the autologin some time ago. Some hints which came to my mind : 1) should be started as a service so restart/start/stop may be used and doesn't leave an open root shell 2) should be restarted with ctrl+alt+backspace without losing the keyboard focus (ma