On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:46 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> X allows applications to read the displayed video memory anyway so what
> is the big deal here ?

X will not always be in control of the full screen.

I'm starting to look at multi-user environments where each user has an X
server which isn't in control of the whole screen, but rather just
paints X windows into off-screen memory where an external trusted
application can take those applications and merge their contents to the
final screen.

-keith

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