Re: [arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Micay
On 06/04/14 08:53 PM, Mario Rugiero wrote: > I'd expect the usual pioneering of Arch for giving the option. I guess it's > up to the maintainers, but I don't see what could delay it in comparison to > Fedora. Is any special building flag needed that could get in the way? In order for a non-setuid

Re: [arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

2014-04-06 Thread Mario Rugiero
I'd expect the usual pioneering of Arch for giving the option. I guess it's up to the maintainers, but I don't see what could delay it in comparison to Fedora. Is any special building flag needed that could get in the way? 2014-04-06 21:44 GMT-03:00 Daniel Micay : > On 06/04/14 12:43 AM, Mark Le

Re: [arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Micay
On 06/04/14 12:43 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > Salutations, > > Since Fedora 21 is working on dropping X root rights via systemd-logind. > Does Arch intend to follow? > > From, > Mark Thanks to the work on logind, our Weston package already works as non-root if you launch it as `weston` instead of `wes

Re: [arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

2014-04-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 04/06/14 at 12:43am, Mark Lee wrote: > > Since Fedora 21 is working on dropping X root rights via systemd-logind. > Does Arch intend to follow? > I imagine this will be the case eventually. But as far as I can tell, at the moment these features are not yet included in the stable packages of

[arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

2014-04-05 Thread Mark Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Salutations, Since Fedora 21 is working on dropping X root rights via systemd-logind. Does Arch intend to follow? From, Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlNA23AACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/bnlQD+KXmYtkAySaraC+omw