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xinit does not allow non-root startx

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From: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> envs.net>
To: Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed <at> protonmail.ch>
Cc: 25865-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:10:13 +0800

Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed <at> protonmail.ch> writes:

> Hi,
>
> xinit suffers from an upstream bug, which does not allow non-root X to be run without a display manager via startx or xinitrc. Several
> people have reported this on #guix.
>
> Currently if one runs startx as non-root, X reports:
> (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)
>
> This bug is further discussed in [1]. Redhat seems to have a patch [2], but it is unclear to me whether this has been applied upstream.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1562219
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203780

Hello, for 'xinit', you can create a '~/.xserverrc` file with:

  tty=$(tty)
  tty=${tty#/dev/tty}
  X vt${tty}

then it will run a non-root X from current tty.  Also 'sx' works fine.

Closing now..

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