As per changelog entries for xserver, the old 'SecurityPolicy' system is no more, and in fact the '-sp' switch is gone. Behavior of untrusted clients is different in 7.4 compared to how it used to be in 7.1 (with 'SecurityPolicy' still in place). Most notably, trusted clients can paste text into untrusted clients (or untrusted clients are allowed to read the cut buffer - don't know which of the two perspectives is closer to the truth), and untrusted clients otherwise seem to have much fewer privileges than before. For instance, an untrusted xterm isn't even allowed to ring the bell (when doing auto-completion, for instance); it will be terminated upon trying so. It will also be terminated if the user selects some text in it. This makes untrusted xterms essentially useless, and I suspect many more problems along these lines.
There must be some way to configure these things, but I could not find it. Maybe someone can give me a hint. Thank you! Lasse
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