[arch-general] [draft] xorg-server 1.16 is now available

[Leonid Isaev]

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,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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