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> It's a shame FreeBSD doesn't maintain an integrated or official graphical interface. Coming from an OpenBSD background (hey - it's the only OS in the world a

> It's a shame FreeBSD doesn't maintain an integrated or official graphical interface. Coming from an OpenBSD background (hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user [1]) -- what I'd like to see is an intra-BSD desktop environment based on Google's Material Design guidelines: http://google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html http://google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.h... And for ol' times sake, the IRIX® Interactive Desktop User Interface Guidelines: http://menehune.opt.wfu.edu/Kokua/Irix_6.5.21_doc_cd/usr/share/Insight/library/SGI_bookshelves/SGI_Developer/books/UI_Glines/sgi_html/index.html http://menehune.opt.wfu.edu/Kokua/Irix_6.5.21_doc_cd/usr/sha... Similar to Quantum OS (Linux): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645504 -- [1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426

zanny 12y ago
> hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user Wait, what? https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H This isn't some custom repo or anything, I'm just running stock Arch and have startx in my bash profile. It runs in user mode, and has for about the last half year.
- hiphopyo 12y ago
  I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that that wasn't the case? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_systemd_user_service https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_... Unfortunately, to be able to run xorg in unprivileged mode, it needs to run inside a session. So, right now the handicap of running xorg as user service is that it must be run with root privileges [...snip...] It seems likely that xorg could be modified [...snip...], and then it could run unprivileged from a user service outside a session.
  - zanny 12y ago
    Thats in the context of using xorg as a systemd user service. You can run startx as a normal user and have the server run unprivileged just fine.

zanny 12y ago

> hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user Wait, what? https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H This isn't some custom repo or anything, I'm just running stock Arch and have startx in my bash profile. It runs in user mode, and has for about the last half year.

hiphopyo 12y ago
I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that that wasn't the case? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_systemd_user_service https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_... Unfortunately, to be able to run xorg in unprivileged mode, it needs to run inside a session. So, right now the handicap of running xorg as user service is that it must be run with root privileges [...snip...] It seems likely that xorg could be modified [...snip...], and then it could run unprivileged from a user service outside a session.
- zanny 12y ago
  Thats in the context of using xorg as a systemd user service. You can run startx as a normal user and have the server run unprivileged just fine.