More X11 Issues
Phil Schaffner
P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Fri Jul 2 02:15:47 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:26 -0700, Thomas Sapp wrote:
> Ok, I got the GDM startup issues resolved, however, another issue has
> presented itself. It is not a problem that is hindering the usage of my
> system but when I log in as root I get an error stating that the XKB failed
> to load. I can still type and I ran the commands it asked me to do if I
> wanted to report it as a bug, but I can not find XKB anywhere on my system.
> Any Ideas? Also, if a normal user logs in they get the error 5-6 times and
> have to click close.
This sounds like the notorious xkbrules bug -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120858
and MANY duplicates.
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or perhaps /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] if not updated
totally) change the line
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
to
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> I also have a question. Can someone describe to me how to connect to
> another machine using an X GUI from the machine I am currently on. They are
> both configured to use XDMCP, but I am a bit of a newbie, as I am sure you
> can tell by my posts! :-)
One question to a customer!!! ;^)
OK, one way is to use ssh - this may help:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/
More general advice: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Phil
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