On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 10:09 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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