Hi, On 04/04/2014 11:40 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 14:18:14 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:What you're basically saying is that on a modern Linux systems, the historic behaviour where X allocates a new VT and occupies it is no longer wanted. This raises several questions: 1. Is there consensus among the various Linux distros that this really is the desired default behaviour?I think it's going to surprise people. I'm certainly used to being able to switch back to the console after running startx. Now maybe it's not as big a deal as I fear, and we'll get used to the new behaviour, but I don't even know what the upside is...
There are 2 reasons for this change: 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights 2) The old behavior creates a new session-id (as returned by getsid()), without registering it with PAM, this breaks session managers such as systemd-logind. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
