On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 22:28 +0200, Christian Hahn wrote: > I understand: insecure, untrusty stuff from the last century, but why > shouldn't this stuff run in one Xmir session. Everything that is running under the same X server can steal stuff from anything else running on the same X server. By having multiple X servers the applications can't steal from each other. The goal is not to create an environment that can run desktops, but one that can run individual separated applications. > > You can't just start an XMir instance either, because there are > > measures in place to prevent arbitrary programs from simply > > connecting to Mir > >
> > Understand. And do you know more about these measure? > I just want to tell upstart? or unity? that I'm trustworthy, > when I want to run Xmir. > It is done on a per-application basis. So when UAL detects that an application needs X11 is starts up XMir before starting that application inside the application's confinement. There are different ways that an application can mark itself as needing X11. The first is by being an application in a Libertine container, we assume that all applications there want X11. The second is by putting an X- property in the application's desktop file: X-Ubuntu-XMir-Enable. On Snappy, this is proposed, we're likely to use the x11 interface to mark applications that need to have XMir enabled for them. For an application that requests XMir the server is started, then once it is running the DISPLAY environment variable is set to point to that X server and the application is started. Ted
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
-- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
