Posts tagged DeviceKit
Oh time suspend your flying 2
Some days ago, I talk about the fact that some underlying technologies were changing too fast. I was mostly talking about HAL vs DeviceKit/libudev/… saga. Today I’ve discovered another one : PolicyKit vs polkit. Indeed once upon a time, someone consider that su/sudo/consolhelper mecanisms were not
sufficient. So they introduced a [...]
Oh time suspend your flying
I do remember when less than 2 years ago we had to handle the HAL support in xorg.conf … This was painful as there were several issues :
HAL need to be started or else you may end up without mouse and keyboard
By default HAL setting up a US keyboard layout ( QWERTY )
There was the need to find a way to configure the keyboard layout, an [...]