[PATCH 0/3] linux: Allow console switching to work without root rights

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Wed Jan 22 14:47:12 PST 2014


>>>>> "PH"  == Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> writes:
>>>>> "HdG" == Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> writes:

PH>> how about $XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/Xorg.#.log? That has a defined
PH>> default as well.

HdG> I wanted to lookup in the xdg spec what the proper xdg path would
HdG> be, but I see you've already done that for me :) Yes that would be
HdG> even better.

I'm way behind on email, but having noticed this thread, and as someone
who generally logs in on a console and runs startx(1), running X w/o
setuid or the like is most welcome!

And +1 on using $XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/Xorg.#.log for the log in such cases.

-JimC
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