[PATCH xinit 2/2] startx: Make startx auto display select work with per user /tmp dirs

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 25-03-15 14:20, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> You're right I had forgotten that the xauth file needs to contain the
>> displaynr, so there is no easy fix here I'm afraid.
> That's not true actually. The xauth file can have a display wildcard, but
> the xauth command doesn't support generating xauth files with display
> wildcards.
>
>> I think that if we want to fix this we should add a -autodisplayconfig
>> config to xinit which takes care of handling both -displayfd and of
>> generating and passing in an xauth file.
> Yea, exactly!  I would go a step further and just always do what the
> -autodisplayconfig line does, implicitly. Of course, if the caller passes
> in a -auth line and $DISPLAY, use the ones passed in, but always do
> -displayfd no matter what, since -displayfd works fine with a passed
> in $DISPLAY and is still useful for getting ready notification without
> having to use unix signal handlers.

Ok, either way (explicit cmdline option or implied by lack of something
specified on the cmdline) sounds good to me. Now all we need is for someone
to code this :)

Note that I've no intent to work at this myself since the startx fixes to
select a really free displaynr work well enough for now, and I've my plate
full with other stuff.

Regards,

Hans