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Comment 24 for bug 1712089

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Mark (1aunchpad-nct) wrote :

> ah, the xhost command still works, even though on wayland; I didn't expect that.

That's because with xhost set, apps fall back to using XWayland. At some point in the future XWayland will disappear and this hack will no longer work.

Comments in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 suggest that the xhost hack opens up potential security holes allowing anything run by root to connect to your session.

BTW, unlike here, that bug contains an explanation of why the xhost hack (currently) works.