[Xgl/Xegl] Input Devices

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 10:34:33 PDT 2005


On 7/27/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> > The login screen needs to be displayed by the same X server as the user
> > session, or people will complain about the flickering between logging in
> > and the session starting.
> 
> It will only flicker if the mode changes.  Login server will stop
> drawing, new server will start and paint over whatever was there. In
> Xegl it is fbdev that is tracking the mode and scanout location.

Another strategy would be to use setuid like Alan is doing.  I'd
rather have them be two separate apps, that insures that there is no
possibility of information transfer between users.

If we are using the same server...
Classified military user logins and uses the server
he logs out and another user logs in using the same server
Now this user searches all of the internal buffers for classified info.

If we start a new server process this can't happen.

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