On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 19:00:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:04PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >>> startx -- vt7
> >>
> >> That requires specifying it by hand every time startx is run. As I
> >> indicated, that is unacceptable; I don't have to specify the VT
> >> manually every time I lanch X now in order to get the current
> >> behavior, and I shouldn't have to specify it manually at every
> >> launch in order get that behavior after a change of the default.
> >>
> >> Where/how would it be possible to specify this in a config file, so
> >> that it can be set-and-forget if desired?
> >
> > In .bashrc (if using bash)
> >
> > alias startx="startx -- vt7"
>
> While that would technically work, it's a bit of a kludge, and I'm not
> fond of those. Perhaps I should have specified an _X-related_ config
> file (by a definition in which xinit, including startx, qualifies as
> being X-related).
Passing arguments to startx is X-related. It's the first time I've heard
using a bash alias described as a "kludge".
> (Sorry if this looks like moving the goalposts - that's not my
> intention, I'm just trying to clarify what I was originally asking for.)
Quoting:
There are 2 reasons for this change:
1) It is needed to make Xorg run without root rights
2) The old behavior creates a new session-id (as returned by getsid()),
without registering it with PAM, this breaks session managers such
as systemd-logind.
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/23004/
