User bus conclusion

Lennart Poettering mzqohf at 0pointer.de
Wed Nov 10 05:01:18 PST 2010


On Wed, 10.11.10 08:49, Thiago Macieira (thiago at kde.org) wrote:

> On Wednesday, 10 de November de 2010 01:09:04 Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:24 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > How would this work in pre-wayland existence? :-)
> > 
> > You'd get a symlink to the "usual" X socket in /tmp at login time.
> 
> Good, that explains it.
> 
> However, this introduces a minor surprise factor: if you have an X session 
> running and then remotely ssh in (without -X), running X apps will not result 
> in an error. These apps will simply run and show on the screen you're not 
> seeing.

This is actually how it already behaves on MacOS iirc. But yepp, this
might be a little bit surprising.

Lennart

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