On 7/28/06, Nikolai Weibull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/27/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vim uses the X server for communication. Only users with write access
> to the X server can send a message to Vim. And if you have write
> access, you are also able to send keystrokes to another process, thus
> you can do anything anyway. E.g., by sending keystrokes to an xterm in
> which a shell is running.
>
> That is, I think it works this way. Perhaps someone with more detailed
> knowledge of X server access restrictions can give a better answer.
Actually, you have to explicitly allow the sending of synthetic
keystrokes to an xterm (the allowSendEvents resource).
Via 'editres protocol', you can remotely manipulate
resources of running xterm (because xterm is Xt application).
I believe that it is possible to turn remotely this
allowSendEvents of xterm (if one has X server access).
Unless this allowSendEvents is treated differently than
other resources; I did not try to write working example.
I don't care, I always run with 'xhost +'.
I don't know,
but perhaps Vim "needs" to have something similar.
Vim has something similar:
gvim --servername ""
disables clientserver in gvim.
Yakov
