Re: What controls X?
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:37:57 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>> I could still not find out, where X is controlled at. I found this
>> process:
>>
>> root 10358 7.8 1.9 146300 41052 tty10 Rs+ 19:13 14:11
>> /usr/bin/X :0 vt10 -br -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-DzJNF
>>
>> Examing the system, I found in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
>>
>> exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
>>
>> where "$@" I suppose is the console-number.
>
> Mmm, I dunno what holds that variable "$@" but it has to be documented
> somewhere ("man startx" or "man xserver") :-?
$@ is a bash positional parameter not an X-specific variable.
>> But where does it get from?
>
> I've always thought that X server sets the first available vt for the x
> window system so I wonder why X server cannot dispose of vt7 to allocate
> the kdm/gdm session.
I tried to look for its source some time ago and gave up quickly. I'm
not running GNOME so this is from memory: the parent process of "exec
/usr/bin/X ..." calls a variable of the form "/org/gnome/<something>".
I thought that it might be a gconf key that might hold the VT but I
didn't find it.
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