Control: forwarded 1004946 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxi/-/issues/13
On Sun 2022-02-13 08:26:24 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
>> Why did you switch to it? Or am I misunderstanding that you did?
>
> For the new security model. No other way to increase the privilege separation.
Thanks for these explanations, I think I understand the situation better
now. I've forwarded the concern upstream at the link above. Maybe the
libXi devs will be able to address the problem, or at least propose an
alternate solution that lets XScreenSaver retain the privilege
separation and the user-friendly key repeat functionality.
--dkg
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