Am Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:22:27PM -0400 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > I was thinking of these changes in Stretch: > > * For many Intel graphics chipsets, the Stretch X server will use the > modeset driver instead of the intel driver. The modeset driver may > require non-free firmware (firmware-misc-nonfree) to activate features, > even on systems which did not use this firmware under Jessie. > > * For some older graphics chipsets, support has been relegated to > "legacy drivers", which require the old setuid X server to run. Install > xserver-xorg-legacy if you require one of these drivers. > > Text from <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInStretch>. This may have nothing > to do with your issue. It's just the first thing I could think of that > could possibly be related. >
At this point I have to ask: Is my problem reproducible? I find it problematic that if you run startx (i3-wm) as user at tty xorg still run as root by default.