On 2023-06-02 22:21:56 +0000, therealcyclist wrote: > Am Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 07:07:05PM +0200 schrieb Michel Verdier: > > 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 > > You linked to the Archlinux Wiki and I have installed i3-wm under > archlinux and there X11 runs without root privileges by default. > > I assumed that it is the same under Debian because Debian is known > for having relatively safe default values. > It looks like i3 doesn't need x11 as root either.
i3-wm is a window manager, not a display manager. So it depends on what display manager you're using (if any). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)