<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1>Well, that’s a history problem. What’s the shortage of running things as root?<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Thanks and Best Regards<o:p></o:p>Steve Zhou<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: magcius@gmail.com [mailto:magcius@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jasper St. Pierre Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 9:56 AM To: Steve (YiLiang) Zhou Cc: Pekka Paalanen; VanCutsem, Geoffroy; ivi@lists.tizen.org; wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: how to make Xwayland auto start on tizen-ivi-3.0 image<o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p><div>Don't run anything as root. Why does your application need to modify files under /usr/?<o:p></o:p></div><div><o:p> </o:p><div>On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Steve (YiLiang) Zhou <<a href="mailto:szhou@telecomsys.com" target="_blank">szhou@telecomsys.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p>Thanks everyone, Xwayland already worked fine, we modify the user-session to use root login. The reason I want to start it with root is that our x11 app need modify a directory under /usr, app doesn't have the right. Thanks and Best Regards Steve Zhou -----Original Message----- From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:<a href="mailto:ppaalanen@gmail.com">ppaalanen@gmail.com</a>]<o:p></o:p><div><div>Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 2:49 PM To: VanCutsem, Geoffroy Cc: Steve (YiLiang) Zhou; <a href="mailto:ivi@lists.tizen.org">ivi@lists.tizen.org</a>; <a href="mailto:wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> Subject: Re: how to make Xwayland auto start on tizen-ivi-3.0 image On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:19:59 +0000 "VanCutsem, Geoffroy" <<a href="mailto:geoffroy.vancutsem@intel.com">geoffroy.vancutsem@intel.com</a>> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pekka Paalanen [mailto:<a href="mailto:ppaalanen@gmail.com">ppaalanen@gmail.com</a>] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 9:04 AM > > To: Steve (YiLiang) Zhou > > Cc: VanCutsem, Geoffroy; <a href="mailto:ivi@lists.tizen.org">ivi@lists.tizen.org</a>; wayland- > > <a href="mailto:devel@lists.freedesktop.org">devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > > Subject: Re: how to make Xwayland auto start on tizen-ivi-3.0 image > > > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:14:44 +0800 > > "Steve (YiLiang) Zhou" <<a href="mailto:szhou@telecomsys.com">szhou@telecomsys.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > Thanks Geoffroy, > > > > > > Your information is very important for me , I'm sure that > > > xwayland module is loaded , so is it possible that I startup > > > Weston with root and start a shell script automatically which execute xwayland in it? > > > > FWIW, when xwayland.so is loaded into Weston, Weston itself will be > > listening on the X11 display socket for connections. When the first > > X11 client connects, it will spawn the Xwayland X server to handle > > that and all following X11 clients. > > > > I suppose all you need is the DISPLAY environment variable, and know > > when Weston is ready to receive X11 connections. I believe > > xwayland.so module sets the DISPLAY variable for all child processes of Weston. > One additional note on this is that we start Weston as a standard user (not root). So does everyone else AFAIK. Xwayland X server does not need any privileges, because it does not open any devices directly (if not for Glamor). However, you should check that the log directory is writable by the Xwayland process, but if that fails, there should be some yelling in where ever Weston's stderr goes to. Thanks, pq<o:p></o:p></div></div>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this message may be privileged and/or confidential. 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