User bus conclusion

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 10.11.10 00:24, Thiago Macieira (thiago at kde.org) wrote:

> On Tuesday, 9 de November de 2010 23:06:42 Ryan Lortie wrote:
> >  - libX11 (and xcb?) will be modified so that an unset DISPLAY
> >    environment variable means that the client opens the socket
> >    "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/X11/socket" or such.
> > 
> >    This has the nice effect that we can use systemd to autostart a
> >    rootless X server on-demand in our post-wayland existence.
> 
> How would this work in pre-wayland existence? :-)

Well, not that I have much plans supporting the following, but: people
could log into a VC getty and X spawned as soon as they type
"gedit".

> The X server is already running before the user's name is typed in the login 
> manager.

That's usually the case. However, the VC getty and the SSH login case
would allow this to work differently.

Lennart

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