[PATCH:xdm 2/5] Add echoPasswdChar resource to set character to display

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 02/20/11 03:24 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:36:38 -0800
>>
>> Stop hardcoding it to '*'.   Allows setting a resource with no value to
>> display " " to advance the cursor without drawing text.
> 
> What's the motivation for this change?  Giving users more knobs to
> play with isn't necessarily going to make them happier.

Patches 2 & 3 in that series were motivated by solving
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32794 and
giving users a choice of usability vs. shoulder-surfing risk.
(I'd also hoped to give a choice of a nicer looking character
 than '*', but the code is very much hardcoded to single-byte
 characters at the moment, so can't take utf-8 values such as
 '●' or '•' yet.)

I've reworked them a bit and will repost soon.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System