Re: 2015 Elections to the X.Org Board of Directors and Approval to Changes of the X.Org By Laws

2015-01-27 Thread Kenneth Graunke
On Monday, January 26, 2015 09:09:40 AM Egbert Eich wrote: [snip] > == > | PLEASE NOTE: > | The memberships of all X.Org Members have been expired! > | To participate in this election you MUST renew your membership > | by the d

Re: XPutImage() Seg Fault

2015-01-27 Thread Glynn Clements
Richard Overstreet wrote: > displaydata = (unsigned char *)calloc(ROWS*COLS*2, sizeof(unsigned char)); > > > > Picture=XCreateImage(Monitor,DefaultVisual(Monitor,0), > DefaultDepth(Monitor,0), Is the display depth actually 16 bpp? If it's 32 bpp, the XPutImage call will try to copy

Re: Securing Xvfb on a multi-user system

2015-01-27 Thread Billy Wilson
Glynn, We ended up patching the source as you recommended. We were a little surprised to discover that tightening the umask or mode prior to socket creation did not prevent others from connecting to Xvfb. So our second approach was to compare the EUID of the Xvfb process with the EUID of the

Re: Securing Xvfb on a multi-user system

2015-01-27 Thread Roland Mainz
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Billy Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about using Xvfb securely on a multi-user system. We are > currently using xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.10.4-6.el6.x86_64. Our main reason > for using Xvfb is to accommodate one of our users, whose scientific > computing

RE: multitouch input handling help required

2015-01-27 Thread Friedrich, Eugen (ADITG/SW1)
Hello Vikas, In genivi we stopped a active development on LayerManager also a X11 is not widely used in the automotive. The current way to go for us is a wayland compositor and we working on implementing ilm API on top of weston. Therefore there is no effort spent to realize you use-case, sor

multitouch input handling help required

2015-01-27 Thread Vikas Patil
Hi, I am running GENIVI Layermanager (i.e. window manager and compositor based on GLES2.0 and X11) which doesn't support multi-touch event (i.e. Xi_TouchBegin, XI_TouchUpdate, XI_TouchEnd) handling and I have a requirement to support X11 based application with multi-touch (i.e. pinch and zoom use

Re: Securing Xvfb on a multi-user system

2015-01-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/27/15 08:16 AM, Roland Mainz wrote: See Xsecurity(7) manual page... the SUN-DES-1 MIT-KERBEROS-5 and ServerInterpreted auth (see $ xhost +si:localuser:root # example in the man page, likely your preference if you only need Xvfb locally) are user-to-user authentification mechanisms... Thou