Re: adding display authorization to other accounts is broken

2017-12-22 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 12/21/2017 04:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, no, it's not exactly the same. Using xhost in this way has been a (grudgingly) documented workaround for Wayland's restrictions for some time now: For what it's worth, I also use it for non-root accounts other than my login account, for

Re: adding display authorization to other accounts is broken

2017-12-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2017-12-21 at 22:15 +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote: > 20.12.2017 17:07 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > > > > > The primary logged-in session is of course authorized to access the main > > X11/wayland display, but it's often useful to add display authorization > >

Re: adding display authorization to other accounts is broken

2017-12-21 Thread Rafal Luzynski
20.12.2017 17:07 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > > The primary logged-in session is of course authorized to access the main > X11/wayland display, but it's often useful to add display authorization > to other accounts. For instance, looking at disk space with 'baobab' >

adding display authorization to other accounts is broken

2017-12-20 Thread Przemek Klosowski
The primary logged-in session is of course authorized to access the main X11/wayland display, but it's often useful to add display authorization to other accounts. For instance, looking at disk space with 'baobab' works better as root because some areas of the filesystem are not readable to