[Tfug] Login managers and fvwm

[Claude Rubinson]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:25:12PM -0700, Neil Short wrote:
> You are correct. This is old news and things change.
> XFree86 used to have a vulnerability with non-root
> startx; and the wrapper was written to handle it; but
> xorg includes the wrapper code already; so it is built
> in to the startx wrapper. I ran into this problem a
> LONNG time ago and at that time I just got into the
> habit of using display managers.
> 
> It took some tracking to find this out - since you
> requested where I got my information. Now, since the
> code is built into xorg nobody even thinks about it
> any more.

Thanks for the info.  It's good to know that we actually do things
correctly some of the time ;^)

C.