[arch-general] Non-root X on Arch Linux

[Mario Rugiero]

I'd expect the usual pioneering of Arch for giving the option. I guess it's
up to the maintainers, but I don't see what could delay it in comparison to
Fedora. Is any special building flag needed that could get in the way?


2014-04-06 21:44 GMT-03:00 Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com>:

> On 06/04/14 12:43 AM, Mark Lee wrote:
> > Salutations,
> >
> > Since Fedora 21 is working on dropping X root rights via systemd-logind.
> > Does Arch intend to follow?
> >
> > From,
> > Mark
>
> Thanks to the work on logind, our Weston package already works as
> non-root if you launch it as `weston` instead of `weston-launch`.
>
> When xorg-server 1.16 is released, this will also work for X. I've been
> planning on splitting out `weston-launch` from the regular Weston
> package or simply removing it (unsure if there are any usable video
> drivers requiring it) and I assume the setuid binary for X will have a
> similar fate.
>
>