Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > Orthogonal to that, startx is basically terrible. It only works because > /usr/bin/X is setuid root, and that seems Bad™. Also, if you run it from > a virtual console, a locked X screensaver is worthless, because someone > can just switch virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+Fn, press Ctrl+C and > they're in your shell session.
This doesn't change anything else that you point out, but that's why you run startx & and then log out of the virtual console. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87oaxg3dnr....@windlord.stanford.edu
