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Re: X11 should not run as root or?



Le 2 juin 2023 therealcyclist a écrit :

> I tried the new Debian bookworm installer rc4 and i manually installed i3-wm.
> I started i3 from tty with startx command as user.
> to my surprise i found out that the xorg process is running as root.
> that can't be intentional, can it?

Maybe because some display managers want xorg as root
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg


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