Re: Xorg replaces TTY1
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:40:00PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 25 Nov 2015 at 15:48:48 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > On 2015-11-25 12:58:15 +0000, Brian wrote:
> > > This is where I think the confusion lies. Quoting
> > >
> > > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23004/
> > >
> > > again.
> > >
> > > There are 2 reasons for this change:
> > >
> > > 1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights
> > > 2) The old behavior creates a new session-id (as returned by getsid()),
> > > without registering it with PAM, this breaks session managers such
> > > as systemd-logind.
> > >
> > > Reason 2) is the one relevant to the first post in the thread.
> >
> > Both are relevant. But if xserver-xorg-legacy is used as you suggested,
> > then I suppose that reason 2 is the one that is still relevant.
>
> I was thinking of the OP being on Jessie. The server is SUID there.
>
> > But then, if the user does "startx -- vt7", he would still be affected
> > by the session manager issue, possibly except with some PAM
> > reconfiguration.
>
> "startx -- vt7" won't work (tested). X only runs on the virtual console
> it was started from.
Works for me. That is alt-f7 from one of the ttys takes to me to X .
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