Hi, I'm looking at letting Weston's 'meson test' run DRM-backend tests automatically and without the need of root privileges. I have a spare DRM device in my machine that is dedicated for this purpose, so I make my normal desktop environment not touch it. My problem is, is there any way to set up things so that logind would give Weston access to that DRM device while my normal desktop is active? I can keep the spare DRM device in the default seat, or I can assign it to a seat of its own. If I assign it to a seat of its own, I don't know how to tell logind that, from within my current session on the default seat, I would like to take over the other seat as well, but from a different process. If I keep the spare DRM device on the default seat, I think logind wouldn't give Weston access, because it is not the session controller. My normal desktop environment has the session control. I have a feeling that I'm trying to do things backwards: that seats spawn sessions on them, and not sessions taking over seats. Any suggestions on what might work? I thought that assigning the spare DRM device to a non-default seat would implicitly make everything work: my normal desktop automatically ignores it, the Weston test won't attempt to open my input devices since those are all in the default seat, I don't have to point weston to a specific device but just the seat, using non-default seat implies not touching anything about VTs so no special-casing those, and logind would let me run as a normal user. Too good to be true? If I can't make logind work, my fallback plan is to use Weston's launcher-direct, which will attempt to open the DRM device directly. For that, I need to change the device node permissions, and modify launcher-direct to work as non-root, without touching any VT stuff, and never get/drop DRM master. Thanks, pq
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