Bug 138643 – x11-apps/xinit: add support for per-runlevel xorg.conf to init.d/xdm

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description SpanKY 2006-06-30 17:12:07 UTC]

it'd be really cool if the xdm script would check the runlevel and use a different config file if it existed

so if i boot with softlevel=fooie, xdm would look to see if xorg.conf.fooie existed, and if so, use that ... if it didnt exist, it should drop back to xorg.conf

you should have access to this via $SOFTLEVEL

in my case, i often need to turn on my laptop into "dual head presentation mode" and since stupid nvidia drivers dont allow this on the fly, i need to use a diff xorg.conf ... which means i need to log out, log in as root, swap xorg.conf, restart xdm, blah blah blah

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-06-30 17:15:54 UTC]

or a better idea as spyderous said is to have the SOFTLEVEL select the ServerLayout used

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-10-29 21:28:40 UTC]

So, what's a good way to go about this? If SOFTLEVEL is set, then assume the layout name will be the same as the softlevel name? Or do we want to allow people to have arbitrary layout names with a way to configure based on softlevel (PITA)?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2006-10-29 22:08:19 UTC]

something like ${LAYOUT:-${SOFTLEVEL}}

people could create /etc/conf.d/xdm.$SOFTLEVEL and change the LAYOUT value if they so choose

[Comment 4 Thomas Bettler 2007-01-08 22:56:54 UTC]

A practical/minimal solution would be to have /etc/init.d/xdm 
accepting parameters from /etc/conf.d/xdm.<RUNLEVEL>

I use it to start different X layouts. One with multi head support, 
the other for multi seat.

[Comment 5 Thomas Bettler 2007-01-08 23:00:49 UTC]

Created attachment 106125 [details, diff]
xdm_init.patch

Make /etc/init.d/xdm accepting params for DM

[Comment 6 Thomas Bettler 2007-01-08 23:03:06 UTC]

Created attachment 106127 [details, diff]
xdm_conf.patch

A line with params to pass

[Comment 7 Thomas Bettler 2007-01-08 23:04:17 UTC]

Created attachment 106129 [details, diff]
startDM.sh.patch

Let startDM.sh pass the params on the dm call

[Comment 8 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-06-19 15:27:22 UTC]

Does anyone still care about this?

Thanks

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2009-06-19 21:47:09 UTC]

i do for the same reason quoted originally ...

[Comment 10 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-04 10:08:28 UTC]

The problem is that the xdm init script doesn't start the X process. It's GDM, KDM or whatever that starts it. The only thing we can do is what Thomas did in his patch, ie having various conf.d/xdm.${SOFTLEVEL}.

So if that's all you need, I'll commit Thomas's patches. If not, well, patches are welcome. :)

Thanks

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2009-11-04 10:53:54 UTC]

it's better than nothing

[Comment 12 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-05 19:06:17 UTC]

The patches no longer apply and I'm completely lost with baselayout stuff.

So if anyone wants this, please send patches on top of xinit-9999 in the x11 overlay.

Thanks