[Xgl/Xegl] Input Devices

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:49 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:06 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > >
> > > Also note that the plan for Xegl is to not run it as root, instead it
> > > runs as your logged in UID.
> > 
> > How's that gonna work with display managers?
> 
> Lot's of choices....
> a) Have another Xegl server that runs as root that functions as the
> display manager. It has the network turned off.
> b) The app that paints the login screen could be root priv and then
> use something like OpenGL to paint the login screen.
> c) The login app could paint the screen using fbdev
> 
> Two purposes in getting rid of root for the normal X server
> 1) Lower the amount of root priv code running in the system
> 2) give the logged in user control over their X server.

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.


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