On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Josh Cepek wrote: > > lapitopi gyuszk # snice -15 X > > As already pointed out, running process with a nice value less than 0 > can only be done by root, and it's usually a really bad idea to run > your entire X session as root. X (and applications running under X) > involve a lot of code, and vulnerabilities can exist in this code.
I think you don't know how X runs. X *always* runs as root on Linux so whether you nice it to 19 or -19 is not relevant. It was only very very recently that someone got X to run as a user. Do you disagree or should I elaborate? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
