Some XOrg issues in the book

[Arthur Demchenkov]

Hello, there.
There're some issues in current development version of the BLFS book that I found...

Chapter 25. X Window System Environment
X Window System Components

1. Code:

mkdir $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/twm &&
ln -svt /etc/X11 \
    $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/{twm,xkb,fs,lbxproxy,proxymngr} \
    $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/{rstart,xdm,xinit,xserver,xsm} \
    $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults

I think it should be changed to something like this (look at xkb):

mkdir $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/twm &&
ln -svt /etc/X11 \
    $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/{twm,fs,lbxproxy,proxymngr} \
    $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/{rstart,xdm,xinit,xserver,xsm} \
    $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/{app-defaults,xkb}

Did I something wrong?
By the way, I have X11-data-xkb-1.0.1

2. The next issue:

   install -v -m755 -D ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
   

and

install -v -m755 -D ~/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config

Why not "-m644" ? It is more appropriate here I think.

3. Setting up Keyboards
   

What do we see here?

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier          "Keyboard0"
    Driver              "Keyboard"

Xorg won't even start with such config.

There's no such driver "Keyboard" in Xorg. There are "keyboard" and "kbd". Choose any :-)

4. There's a type in xterm:
   

   --with-app-default=$XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults&&
   

Better variant:

--with-app-default=$XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults &&

Thanks for spent time.

--
Best regardz, Spinal

[dnicholson@…]

Point 1: I'm not sure we want the xkb data in /etc/X11 since it's data, but if it's historically been there I'm ok with it. Can anyone confirm that /etc/X11/xkb exists on one of the monoliths?

Point 2: Good point. The configuration doesn't need to be executable.

Point 3: Good point. Does XFree have the "Keyboard" driver?

Point 4: This should be fixed.

[Arthur Demchenkov]

Hello, Dnicholson! 1) My first point was about the symlink created by command from the book was wrong for my installation. Yes, /etc/X11/xkb was in the monolithic Xorg. 2) OK 3) I don't know :-) 4) OK

[Arthur Demchenkov]

OMG :) Sorry for the previous post.

Hello, Dnicholson!

1) My first point was about the symlink created by command from the book was wrong for my installation. Yes, /etc/X11/xkb was in the monolithic Xorg.
2) OK
3) I don't know :-)
4) OK

[dnicholson@…]

Thanks for the report. This should be fixed in r6804. A couple quick notes. The first problem was a bad effect I missed when I globally dropped the --datadir=$XORG_PREFIX/lib switch in Xorg months ago. I'm not sure if XFree86 accepts "keyboard", but the actual installed name is "kbd" for both X variants. So, that's what's on the page now.

Closing.

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