From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020625 Description of problem: When changing the display settings via redhat-config-xfree8 (launched from the menu under "System Tools/Display Configuration"), the program states that changes will take effect after logout. This works when doing this logged in as root, but when done as a regular user, X doesn't restart. The changes do take effect if X is manually restarted (ctrl-alt-backspace works). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.As non-root user, from the gnome menu run System Tools/Display Configuration & enter the root pasword when prompted. 2.Make changes. 3.Logout Actual Results: X doesn't restart on logout from normal user account after making config changes in redhat-config-xfree86, but does restart if redhat-config-xfree86 was run from within a root session. Expected Results: X should restart even if this was done under normal user session, since the user is prompted for the root password befure making changes, and the changes are applied to /etc/X11/XF86Config. Additional info: Limbo running on dual Pentium II 350, 256Mb RAM, SMP kernel, NVIdia RIVA TNT2 AGP card, tried both XFree's "nv" driver and NVidia's "nvidia" driver with the same results.
hp, i think this is actually a gdm setting AlwaysResetServer or something like that. Should we enable that?
I know we've discussed toggling that gdm setting before, but I remember none of the arguments for/against.
Setting AlwaysResetServer is more of a hack. Applications shouldn't depend on X being killed and restarted on logout/login. It is much nicer, faster less flickery to not restart the server but to just HUP it and have it regenerate itself. I suppose it could even be safer on buggy video cards. Perhaps there should be some way to lett gdm know that the session wants a restart. I'm just adding a command to the fifo protocol to do this. one would need to do soemthing like: if [ -e /var/gdm/.gdmfifo ]; then (echo;echo DIRTY_SERVERS) > /var/gdm/.gdmfifo fi Or follow the example in the gdm.spec for SOFT_RESTART (that will fetch the proper directory of the .gdmfifo file no matter what it's set to in the config file). Also doing this on an older version of gdm has no effect so it's safe to do. (well it's not in cvs yet, but will be momentairly)
having a special way for redhat-config-xfree86 to force a server restart sounds like a nice solution to me.
I'm also adding SOFT_RESTART_SERVERS command which is mostly like DIRTY_SERVERS but if a user is not logged in on one of them it will restart the X server right away. This may be a bit too harsh to do without the user asking for it. But it may also be useful. Just committed all this bit to CVS Hmmmm, perhaps I should write some docs on all this as well someday
*** Bug 67046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
George, is there a released version with this in yet?
Ok. This should be fixed in redhat-config-xfree86 0.6.0-1 and gdm 2.4.0.7-1.
Fix confirmed with redhat-config-xfree86-0.6.0-1 and gdm-2.4.0.7-1.