Alex Vestgaard <[email protected]> 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..
