On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Rich Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/3/2015 10:31 AM, Thompson, David wrote: >> >> Systemd drama aside, an unprivileged Xorg sounds very useful. > > > Tangentially, we've had genuinely unprivileged X servers for a long time. > VNC's standalone X servers do not require root and to the best of my > knowledge never have. Combined with DirectVNC, a Linux framebuffer VNC > client, and you can have X without root without systemd hackery.
True. But I think most people want X servers that take advantages of all the graphics acceleration features in modern graphics cards. Those X servers have in my experience usually required running them as root. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
