Dropping Base X group? [Was: Re: KDE logout options with F8]

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 19:43 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:10:53PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
> > > I am a small desktop user. For the display managers, there are wdm, 
> > > xdm and slim (but they lack integration with consolekit). For the
> > 
> > I think my KDM ConsoleKit patch should be fairly easy to adapt to any 
> > XDM-derived display manager, as KDM is also derived from XDM. The only caveat 
> 
> I have looked at both and, even though maybe kdm is derived from xdm
> they have diverged too much. Using libck-connector allows to achieve what
> the kdm consolekit does, however. And there is an equivalent of
> d->serverVT in xdm which would allow to set the X display device like
> 
>                sprintf(device, "/dev/tty%d", d->serverVT);

Eew.  Don't do it that way.

atropine:~% xprop -root | grep VT
XFree86_VT(INTEGER) = 7

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