[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#603796: Bug#603796: acpi-support: getXconsole depends on Xserver running as X and not Xorg

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:57:23PM +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> Actually, there's also the problem that getXuser assumes XAUTHORITY is
> placed in the user home; this is false with gdm3.
> The attached patch (that includes and supersedes the previous one)
> parses the environment of the processes that belong to the user, until
> it finds an XAUTHORITY definition.

Could it be that this patch breaks other display managers? 

feivel:~# for pid in `ps -U <user that's actually logged in>  -o pid=`; do grep -z XAUTHORITY /proc/$pid/environ; done
feivel:~#

It seems my system using kdm does not have any XAUTHORITY setting in the environment. 

Michael
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