On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 07:48 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:19:08PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > With elogind do you mean https://github.com/wingo/elogind? That > > project doesn't look very active. > > > > Is there any active project trying to reimplement the logind API? > > Consolekit2 for example; it suffers from being a fork of consolekit > codebase though.
That one looks indeed still active. > > Including access to devices (which X wants these days)? > > That's just for ancient graphics cards (ie, with no KMS/DRM support) > without xserver-xorg-legacy, right? logind is required for drivers using KMS and *not* the legacy suid wrapper, see /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/NEWS.Debian.gz. I think wayland does the same (I haven't used it though). So eventually alternatives should probably provide an alternative for this part of logind too. Ansgar
