Terminals

[Walter Bender]

The keyboard issue is simply a matter of having the correct console
keyboard map files installed. The one for Spanish is attached. Not
sure what the current plan is for inclusion of these files (Dennis?).
It should be installed in /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty

Regarding your second point, this is really what I was asking: what
dependencies do we have for Sugar/X in normal admin tasks that require
root?

thanks.

-walter

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe
>> the console is enough?
>>
>> -walter
>
> I don't think I've used the console in months, nice to know it's there in an
> emergency, but it was problematic to use for normal admin tasks for two
> reasons:
>
> 1) The keyboard map does not match the machines actual keyboard, so trying
> to remember US key layout on a Spanish keypad is a nightmare :-) Anyone know
> any tricks to correct that?
>
> 2) Often the olpc related scripts I'd be trying to use would have some hooks
> into X, and other environment variables. Without a lot of env
> hacking/guessing they would just bomb out in console.
>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity
>>> is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual role of
>>> root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving the
>>> Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating the Terminal
>>> activity proper would be a nice way to solve half of our security issue?
>
> --Gary
>
>
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