More X11 Issues

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:26 -0700, Thomas Sapp wrote:
> Ok, I got the GDM startup issues resolved, however, another issue has 
> presented itself.  It is not a problem that is hindering the usage of my 
> system but when I log in as root I get an error stating that the XKB failed 
> to load.  I can still type and I ran the commands it asked me to do if I 
> wanted to report it as a bug, but I can not find XKB anywhere on my system.  
> Any Ideas?  Also, if a normal user logs in they get the error 5-6 times and 
> have to click close.

This sounds like the notorious xkbrules bug -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120858
and MANY duplicates.

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or perhaps /etc/X11/XF86Config[-4] if not updated
totally) change the line

Option   "XkbRules"   "xfree86"

to 

Option   "XkbRules"   "xorg"

> I also have a question.  Can someone describe to me how to connect to 
> another machine using an X GUI from the machine I am currently on.  They are 
> both configured to use XDMCP, but I am a bit of a newbie, as I am sure you 
> can tell by my posts! :-)

One question to a customer!!! ;^)

OK, one way is to use ssh - this may help:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

More general advice: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Phil