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Samus_

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Registered: 2007-05-25

Posts: 13

slim, a problem with virtual consoles and a question about reboot

hi, just installed slim but now when I switch to the virtual consoles my session on X starts firing keyboard events on the consoles I have there, how can I fix that?

I'm using xmonad, my terminal is sakura and I'm starting slim from /etc/inittab and xmonad from ~/.xinitrc

also, it seems slim uses special usernames to halt and reboot however those ask me for the root password, is there a way to avoid that?

thanks all.

Last edited by Samus_ (2008-11-23 18:19:49)

kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: slim, a problem with virtual consoles and a question about reboot

hi, just installed slim but now when I switch to the virtual consoles my session on X starts firing keyboard events on the consoles I have there, how can I fix that?

this http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func= … up_id=2663 might be related.  out of curiosity, why are you starting slim from /etc/inittab and not as a daemon in /etc/rc.conf?

also, it seems slim uses special usernames to halt and reboot however those ask me for the root password, is there a way to avoid that?

the flippant answer is, "yes, fix slim."  but so as not to be a jerk, 'man slim' turns up this:

The 'halt' and 'reboot' commands need the root password, this may change in future releases.

so i was about to say, "no."  then i decided to hit google with 'slim "special usernames" password'.   unfortunately, your post here is the fourth result, so no love there.

*but* there's this:

http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func= … up_id=2663

and this:

http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?func … up_id=2663

and the abs.

so if you really want it, read the wiki page on the abs, add the patch to the pkgbuild, makepkg, and pacman -U.  if you don't want pacman to replace your patched version when there's an update, add slim to the IgnorePkg line in /etc/pacman.conf.  you'll have to re-makepkg and re-pacman -U whenever there's an update, but it ain't that hard.

if it works, i might like a copy of yr pkgbuild.  hth!

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R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: slim, a problem with virtual consoles and a question about reboot

I have used slim but after a while I have decided to use good old plain console login works right every time
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57677

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kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: slim, a problem with virtual consoles and a question about reboot

@samus_: you fix this?  how'd it go?

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[23:00:16]    dr_kludge | i want to invent an olfactory human-computer interface, integrate it into the web standards, then produce my own forked browser.
[23:00:32]    dr_kludge | can you guess what i'd call it?
[23:01:16]    dr_kludge | nosilla.
[23:01:32]    dr_kludge | i really should be going to bed.  i'm giggling madly about that.