Il 16/09/2018 alle 18:43, Andreas Messer ha scritto: > Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, many DEs have hopped on > the systemd train and therefore depend on its services. In particular, > the missing logind was the main barrier to have DEs like Gnome or KDE > fully working on Devuan. With fully working I refer to how standard users > would expected an desktop environment to behave. > > Therefor elogind was added to Devuan as a replacement for systemd's > logind. But actually elogind is just the logind component from systemd > mangled to run standalone. I expect it to show almost the same > behavior like the original one.
I see. Anyway I strongly doubt that any DE relies on startx internally: it's a shell script that's intended to provide a convenient user interface to console users who want to spawn an X session. Also note that startx will *always* run X as root, even the stock Devuan version. My patch doesn't change that. The 'needs_root_rights' variable I add to 'Xwrapper.config' is only there for Xwrapper (a short lived program called by startx) to be able to allocate a new tty. After which it spawns X and quits. With the stock RedHat-derived version, instead, a new tty is not allocated: the current tty is taken over by X when you issue startx. After X quits, the current tty is released, but is now owned by root (no longer by your user). Which is not the way the XFree86 / Xorg devs intended startx to work. Later, -- Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at: gopher://darioniedermann.it/ <> https://www.darioniedermann.it/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
