Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:57:13 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/x11.diff
>>>>
>
> I a bit unsure about the .xinitrc and .xsession remove & restore dance
> suggested in the patch.
>
> I'm inside a GDM session now and cannot test this, but I think the
> following should work without changing anything in the default .xinitrc
> or .xsession file of the user:
>
> $ startx /usr/local/bin/xterm -- :1
>
> I'll test this a few minutes later, but if it works most of the new text
> of the patch is not necessary.
>
>
>
Fact is I found (someone posted it in questions I think) that you can
test the Xorg "the old way" by using the -retro switch:
X -config /root/xorg.conf.new -retro
I've tested this and it works fine, so I will probably revise the patch
tomorrow - this will make it a lot smaller.