Bug#323270: dexconf: Please add support for reconfiguring X at boot time

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Package: xserver-common
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

When booting live CDs and thin clients, there is a need to
(re)configure X automatically at boot time.  To make this easier and
more convenient with the normal X packages, it would be nice if an
init.d script was provided to do call dexconf at boot time to generate
a new configuration.  Here is a draft init.d script based on the
script included in xdebconfigurator and code fetched from the LTSP
package in Ubuntu.

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/xserver-common
#
# chkconfig: 2345 52 78
# description: Genererate X configuration at boot time

set -e

ENABLE_AT_BOOT=

if [ -f /etc/default/xserver-common ] ; then
    . /etc/default/xserver-common
fi

do_start() {
    if [ true = "$ENABLE_AT_BOOT" ] ; then
        if [ -z "$xserver_package" ]; then
            # set default xserver
            if [ -d /usr/share/doc/xserver-org/ ]; then
                xserver_package="xserver-xorg"
            elif [ -d /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/ ]; then
                xserver_package="xserver-xfree86"
            else
                echo "WARNING: no known xserver detected"
                return
            fi
        fi
	msg="Generating new config file for $xserver_package."
        logger -p user.info -t xserver-common "$msg"
        echo "xserver-common: $msg"

	# Add code in /etc/default/xserver-common if you want to
	# preseed the values used during reconfiguration.

	dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive $xserver_package
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        do_start
        ;;
    stop|restart|force-reload|status)
        ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
        exit 2
        ;;
esac
exit 0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages xserver-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.4.57         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  x11-common                6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

xserver-common recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
  xserver-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
  xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
  xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10