On 03.02.2017 19:29, Willaim W. Austin wrote: > I recently upgraded a machine (my main workstation) from FC 23 to FC 24, and there's a problem > > The install was from the Workstation version and the checksum correctgly matches (actually I always make 2 copies, just in case, which I hold on to forever - they both check). > > I did the install, and intitially (until I added other users) everything was fine - no problems in logging in. > However, I have an imortant app which I support and it needs the entire root screen and can't coexist with plasma shell, so the machine normally runs in multi-user mode, and X sessions are accessed via /usr/bin/startx. (This has been working since the days of Redhat 5 through FC1 and up to and including FC23 - I never tried FC 24 - and has never given a bit of trouble.) > > After I added a non-privileged user for myself the fun began. The biggest issue was that a non-privileged user could nto run an X-server (not via startx anyway). [...] $ loginctl show-session 1 -pId -pName -pVTNr -pSeat -pTTY -pType -pClass -pActive -pState Id=1 Name=umbrella VTNr=1 Seat=seat0 TTY=tty1 Type=tty Class=user Active=yes State=active $ man 1 Xorg.wrap $ cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config needs_root_rights = no $ startxfce4 $ ps au | grep [X]org umbrella [...] tty1 [...] /usr/libexec/Xorg :0 vt1 $ runlevel N 3 ~~~~~ Via GNOME Display Manager: $ runlevel N 5 Xfce: $ ps au | grep [X][wo] gdm [...] tty1 [...] /usr/bin/Xwayland :1024 -rootless -noreset -listen 4 -listen 5 -displayfd 6 umbrella [...] tty5 [...] /usr/libexec/Xorg vt5 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1012/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3 GNOME: $ ps au | grep [X][wo] gdm [...] tty1 [...] /usr/bin/Xwayland :1024 -rootless -noreset -listen 4 -listen 5 -displayfd 6 umbrella [...] tty5 [...] /usr/libexec/Xorg vt5 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1012/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3 KDE: $ ps au | grep [X][wo] gdm [...] tty1 [...] /usr/bin/Xwayland :1024 -rootless -noreset -listen 4 -listen 5 -displayfd 6 umbrella [...] tty5 [...] /usr/libexec/Xorg vt5 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1012/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
