On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 10:09 Leigh Scott <leigh123li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 8:33 PM Ty Young <youngty1997(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Fedora and other distributions have been working on rootless Xorg > > since 2013. We've had it in place since at least 2015. This change was > > made way back in Fedora 24. > > > > Do you mean 'Support non-root X'? if so some DM's still don't support it. > > https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/18 > > > > > This is Nvidia's fault. It was hidden from you because sometimes the > > packaging for the proprietary Nvidia driver has forced non-rootless > > Xorg. I guess that's no longer the case, oh well. Talk to the packager > > for the Nvidia driver, or better yet, talk to Nvidia to get them to > > support rootless Xorg properly. > > As far as I know we don't force non-rootless X. > Right. Last I checked, the Xorg processes on my system (NVIDIA + proprietary drivers) ran as root on fedora 30 Workstation. Fabio _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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