On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:20:16 +0000 (GMT)
Russell Brown <russell@...> wrote:

> Hmmm....  tdekbdledsync is trying to control the wrong keyboard LEDs for
> remote displays.
> 
> We have a number of remote users (XDMCP/tdm) and each one has a
> tdekbdledsync process running with /dev/tty0 and /dev/input/eventX open
> on the server (the machine hosting tdm) and not the remote workstation.
> 
> This is obviously wrong.
> 
> Ideally, tdekbdledsync should be smarter and not try to control the
> keyboard LEDs on remote displays but as it isn't, can I globally disable
> tdekdbledsync?  (we don't run X on the main server console).
> 
> I looked at the tdm source and in kgapp.cpp I see:
> 
> 	if (trinity_desktop_synchronize_keyboard_lights) { 
> 		kbdl = new TDEProcess; 
> 		*kbdl << TQCString( argv0, strrchr( argv0, '/' ) - argv0
> + 2 ) + "tdekbdledsync"; kbdl->start(); 
> 	} 
> 
> but I can't find what sets "trinity_desktop_synchronize_keyboard_lights".
> 
> Any pointers?
> 

As this is not the only way tdekbdledsync is problematic i asked
before for an easy way to disable it but got no reply :( Now i just kill it
by cron job.


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)