Re: Use xenodm like startx?

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:33:01 +0100 Freddy Fisker <ff@freddyfisker.dk>
> Hi
>
> I am using the Xfce desktop, and the only thing I am doing is making the
>
> file with:
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> $ echo xfce4-session > ~/.xinitrc
>

Hi Freddy,

Alright, I was running startx pretty happily with an .xinitrc to set up
programs started, terminal positions & everything, then along comes the
notorious fix and now, it's renamed to .xsession, and xenodm starts it.

But now I have to log twice to the console and then again log in to the
X display manager, which I totally don't like having to do, a nuisance.

The console is used ironically to setup & add ssh agent keys, before X.
So that the agent could persist and be used regardless of the X server.

With the help of the tips from this thread, now it's back to manual log
at the console and running the x alias to start the session. All good.

https://man.openbsd.org/xenodm#RESOURCES

DisplayManager.*.autoLogin
DisplayManager.*.terminateServer

The only issue is, these sets of complexities called xenodm, needlessly
just because people want to log in a Windows graphical display manager.

I just have no use for this login manager stuff, and never had any use,
of desktop environments complex dysfunctional distro style all mixed up
graphical 'experience'. Plain cwm, simplest X setup and it just works.

It would be nicer if we could run X with a session file WITHOUT xenodm.
Not sure your suggested xinit is not a fall through of the setuid bug..

2018-10-26 setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
The Xorg binary is no longer installed setuid.
So startx(1) can no longer be used by non-root users.
The xenodm(1) display manager has to be used.

Kind regards,
Anton Lazarov

>
> And then starting the Xfce desktop with the command:
>
> $ xinit
>
>
> Best regards
> Freddy Fisker
>
>
> On Thursday, 31 January 2019 16:55:20 CET, lists@wrant.com wrote:
> > Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:23:08 +0100 Freddy Fisker <ff@freddyfisker.dk>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have never used the startx command. I use the xinit command
> >> together with
> >> the ~/.xinitrc file.
> >
> > Hi Freddy,
> >
> > Are you referring to a recent OpenBSD, or some other customised variant?
> > If that's a bypass of the recent security fixes don't bother responding.
> > I'm only interested how it solves or improves on-demand X session model.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Anton Lazarov
> >
> >> Best regards
> >> Freddy Fisker
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thursday, 31 January 2019 11:57:12 CET, John Ankarström wrote: ...
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> >
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