Re: Proposal: Generalized Security Framework for X server

Keith Packard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Around 13 o'clock on Mar 4, Eamon Walsh wrote:

> Protecting the fb would be the job of the operating system.  The work
> I'm doing only concerns things like background-None windows and image
> grabbing (things you can do through X protocol requests).

With the Composite extension, background 'none' windows don't (currently) 
get to see the existing screen contents.  That's currently considered a 
bug, but perhaps it's actually something of a feature in this context.

-keith
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