On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:57:25 +0100 Bruno Martins <bmomartins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello list, > > I can read here: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html > > the following: > > > 3.2.4. rc.local no longer packaged > > The |/etc/rc.d/rc.local| local customization script is no longer > included by default. Administrators who need this functionality > merely have to create this file, make it executable, and it will run > on boot. Upgrades are not affected by this change. > > However, in my system this isn't happening. ...snip... > ## Defaults brightness to maximum. > echo 10 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness I would expect this to work. Does it? > ## Enables mousepad tapping in LXDE. > synclient TapButton1=1 This will fail. synclient needs a DISPLAY to work with. When rc.local is run it's before there's any X session and thus no display. I would expect this to not work. > ## Enables mousepad vertical scrolling in LXDE. > synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 Ditto above. > #exit 0 > > However, if I run the file manually, it loads OK. From an active X session? Yes, I would expect that to work since you have a DISPLAY. > Can you please give me a tip on this? I would look at making these into a script, then give it a desktop file and set it to autostart in your desktop env. At that point it should have a display and work. > Best regards, > kevin
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