some suggestion about synaptic in debian
hi,
> At line 11 of /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.Debian
> I have:
>
> If you want to be able to change driver parameters without restarting
> the X server, enable the "SHMConfig" option in the X configuration
> file. You can then use the "synclient" program to query and modify
> driver parameters on the fly.
> SECURITY NOTE! This is not secure if you are in an untrusted
> multiuser environment. All local users can change the parameters at
> any time.
>
> In the synaptics manpage the same concept is repeated at least twice, I
> don't see much more to be done here...
> As far as I can tell also [qk]synaptics is warning about the need for
> such option to be enabled and/or suggesting some version mismatch.
I didn't checked /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.Debian
Nice to know that the note about SHMConfig exists. With the ksynaptics message
updated, it'll be sufficient.
> > Do you think it's possible to convince the XOrg people to add an question
> > about enabling touch pad and SHM in xorg.conf when running debconf
> > (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg)? (also telling about the security issue?)
> > It would be much easier for newbies this way!
> As far as I know the touchpad is already detected by the Debian X
> configuration, the only problem being it uses a very minimal
> configuration.
> I'd like to find some time[1] to send a patch to add more stuff, but I'm
> not sure about the debconf question, but since this is the X
> configuration tool maybe the X Strike Force is more suited to tell if
> this is welcome or not.
>
> [1]: it's quite a long time I've been willing to do it and never found
> enough time for it... I hope I will soon, any help is appreciated :)
mail cc'ed to to the ML for feedback ;)
cheers,
Fathi
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