Hi,

[ cross-posting to arch-general ]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 03:59:27PM +0200, Laurent Carlier wrote:

The new version comes with the following changes:

• X is now rootless with the help of systemd-logind, this also means that it

must be launched from the same virtual terminal as was used to log in. Please note that launching X through a login-manager (gdm, kdm, ...) doesn't yet provide rootless access. The old root execution behavior can be restored through the Xorg.wrap config file (man xorg.wrap).

Note that this update is not seemless because it breaks virtual machines with vesa (no KMS, so can not access /dev/mem). The documentation says that Xorg will autodetect whether or not to drop root privs, but it doesn't.

Forcing X to run as root via Xwrapper.config does help, but neither this file nor /etc/X11/X11 are part of the package. Is it possible to at least have the latter directory in xorg-server?

Otherwise, great news!

Thanks,