On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 05:05:49PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Here is a tested patch to fix the problem. Please apply in the next > version of XFree86 for Debian. > > Having X fail without any error message is a usability problem > confusing users and giving university support personel extra work. It > would be very nice if this could be fixed on the official packages. > > I'm not sure where the message_nonl() function is used. It is not > used in any of the Xsession.d scripts we got installed, but I added > the call to xmessage there as well just in case. :) Your patch is okay except that it also needs to check for and confirm the existence of the "xmessage" executable before trying to use it. I'll adapt it accordingly. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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