On 2015-11-25 12:58:15 +0000, Brian wrote: > This is where I think the confusion lies. Quoting > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23004/ > > again. > > There are 2 reasons for this change: > > 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights > 2) The old behavior creates a new session-id (as returned by getsid()), > without registering it with PAM, this breaks session managers such > as systemd-logind. > > Reason 2) is the one relevant to the first post in the thread.
Both are relevant. But if xserver-xorg-legacy is used as you suggested, then I suppose that reason 2 is the one that is still relevant. But then, if the user does "startx -- vt7", he would still be affected by the session manager issue, possibly except with some PAM reconfiguration. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
