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R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Rootless Xorg

I have just noticed that in my machine X was running as root. I clearly remember when the transition was made to rootless X was made [1][2] and according to the wiki[3] X should start rootless in my machine, yet it starts as root.

I have used the wrapper configuration file[4] to tell X to start without root and it works(1), so I was wondering if it is just a detection problem in my machine or if the decision to revert rootless X by default was due to any bugs or compatibility problems.

(1) My setup fulfills all the requirements stated in the wiki.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/xorg-ser … available/
[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188974
[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … 28v1.16.29
[4] man Xwrapper.config

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Xabre

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 757

Re: Rootless Xorg

Do you use a display manager?

R00KIE

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Re: Rootless Xorg

No display managers, I use startx on a tty.

I was looking into closed bug reports and found this[1], I wonder if it's a similar problem.

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47061

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