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Re: X11 should not run as root or?



Am Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 09:24:13PM +0200 schrieb Sven Joachim:
>
> That is rather strange.  The source of the wrapper program that decides
> whether Xorg needs root rights has not been touched for many years[1].
> 
> Cheers,
>        Sven
> 
> 
> 1. https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xserver/xorg-server/-/commits/debian-unstable/hw/xfree86/xorg-wrapper.c
> 

Debian bookworm rc4 without gnome, just default system tools and after reboot i just run at tty:

sudo apt install i3-wm alacritty xinit xserver-xorg
echo "exec i3" > ~/.xinitrc
startx

and xorg running as root


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