Re: problems with kde, xorg, and (perhaps) 4.0beta2

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:38:39 +1200
Mark Davies <mark%mcs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:15:46 -0400
> >
> > "Blair Sadewitz" <blair.sadewitz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > A while back I filed a PR about the /tmp/.ICE-unix thing.  The
> > > workaround is actually the solution AFAIK; see
> > > x11/kdelibs3/MESSAGE.
> >
> > I moved my code to do that to /etc/rc.conf.d/kdm.  Perhaps it
> > should be in /etc/rc.d/kdm?
> 
> I put the MESSAGE in rather than putting something in rc.d/kdm or 
> somewhere else as I don't understand under what circumstances its 
> explicitly needed and when not.  I have never had to explicitly do it 
> in any of my setups but clearly some other people do.

Strange....

I wonder if the MESSAGE should be for kde3 instead, though.

> 
> > > Re: TLS; I don't know if there's an option for this, but maybe
> > > you could use gnutls instead?
> >
> > I have no idea how to do that with kde.
> 
> TLS is working for me from kmail.  I use it every day (talking to 
> dovecot on a 4.99.9 box).

Hmm -- I'll upgrade a domU to -current and see what happens with the
same package tarballs.
> 
> > > Modular Xorg in pkgsrc nearing the point where you might consider
> > > using it in production; have you considered an upgrade path yet?
> >
> > It doesn't support X servers yet, a requirement for that machine. 
> > Nor is it a machine I use (and hence can work around problems
> > with), so I'm unwilling to put experimental software on it.
> 
> The X servers are the only bit of modular Xorg that I'm using at the 
> moment, though I am contemplating making the switch to fully modular 
> X soon.
> 
I must have misunderstood something.  I'll try those soon. 



                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb