Re: Problem with Xserver

[Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@mailbox.org>]

On 12/4/20 2:04 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yesterday I encountered a problem with using the console with zsh.
> >
> > In the internet I found a "solution": modify 'allowed_users' in
> > /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.
> >
> > I made the change and that was it.
> >
> > Now the autlogin does not work anymore. Instead the normal login screen is
> > shown. But the login as the normal user results in
> >
> > a short blank screen and a new login screen is shown (obviously the system
> > does not like me anymore); i.e. I cannot log in as user.
> >
> > I can log in as root and can do whatever I want there.
> >
> > I am using Debian Buster AMD64 (updated weekly), XFCE4 desktop with lightdm.
> >
> >
> > Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this problem?
> Obviously, some users are not allowed_users.
>
> man Xwrapper.config says:
>
>      allowed_users = rootonly|console|anybody
>
>      Specify  which  users may start the X server
>      through the wrapper. Use rootonly to only allow root, use console to
>      only allow users logged into a physical console, and use anybody to
>      allow anybody.  The default is console.
>
> Have you set it to "anybody"?
>
> -dsr-
Thanks for your quick reply.

Originally the setting in Xwrapper.config was 'allowed-users=console'.

I changed that to '...=anybody' and that 'killed me'.

Even a 'dpkg-reconfigure ..' as recommended in the comments of 
Xwrapper.config did not help.

Looking further I found a rather brutal solution to the problem:

==> remove ~/.Xauthority

I did that, I can login, autologin works: my machine accepts me as user 
again!

The original problem still exists, but that seems to be a 
zsh/xorg-problem. I will have to see how that can be resolved.

K.D.J.