Hi Michal, Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script on my system, things are much more clear now.
On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote: >> 3) Are Xorg and Xephyr handling xauth the same way? >> ================================================ I'm using both a >> genuine Xorg server and Xephyr. >> >> Are both of them consistent in their way to handle xauth >> authorizations? > > I think yes. I can't see a "-auth" option in the Xephyr man page. So, do you you know against what it checks incoming client credentials? I suspect it will use the process owner's ~/.Xauthority file but I'm not sure... -- -- Sylvain Leroux -- sylv...@chicoree.fr -- http://www.chicoree.fr _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
