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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdm and Xservers file (was: Re: bugs.kde.org offline due to kde
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-17 16:01:01
Message-ID: 20050317160101.GA9330 () ugly ! local
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:19:58PM +0100, Torsten Kasch wrote:
> > do you really think i'd have taken away such essential
> > configurability? just modify your script to fiddle with kdmrc
> > instead of Xservers.
> 
> Not an option because:
> 
> - It's not *my* script, it's part of the software provided by Sun
> [...]
> - The actual manipulation of the Xservers file is done by a binary
> [...]
> - It is not clear if the Xservers file is used/required by other SunRay
>   utilities.
> 
all three no problem: let it create the Xservers file as usual and then
merge it into kdmrc from the outside. does the tool communicate with kdm
directly at all?

> - For obvious reasons we want to share our "kdmrc" among our SunRay
> servers which is no longer be possible with the current design.
> 
how ugly ... a common file references per-machine files. sounds like
TLS. :}
anyway, i'll implement file merging in kdm_config relatively soon, so
you'll be able to provide host-specific kdmrcs that shadow the server
options from the global one.

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