[PATCH] [RFC] socket activation code for xserver

[Hans de Goede]

Hi Łukasz,

I'm a new member of Red Hat's graphics team. At the request
of Peter Hutterer I've been looking at your systemd socket
activation patches.

Applying / building them was not a problem.

My initial thought for testing socket activation was to
write the necessary unit files and patch gdm to not start
X for local displays. But the latter bit is much harder
then it sounds.

Typically the display-manager will start X with a --auth
parameter passing a file with auth-cookies in there. When
using socket based activation this won't work. We may be
able to work around this, but I wonder if it is worth
the trouble.

Which has left me wondering what the use-case is for this,
and how you envision socket activation working for X in
a traditional Linux desktop setup with xdm/gdm/kdm ?

Thanks & Regards,

Hans