Am Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 07:18:36PM -0400 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 11:03:27PM +0000, therealcyclist wrote: > > Am Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 08:26:55PM +0200 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > > i3-wm is a window manager, not a display manager. So it depends on > > > what display manager you're using (if any). > > > > so we assume that the majority use a display manager who cares about this > > via polkit or similar. > > x11 as root by default is a security risk to which all those running i3-wm > > under xinit are unnecessarily exposed. > > unless they know what they are doing. >
> If you are running "startx" on tty1 in Debian 11 and Xorg is running > as root instead of your regular user account, then START THERE. I have tested debian 12 not 11. > What video card do you have? nvidia/amd *seperate systems > Which driver is Xorg using? (Find the actually correct Xorg.0.log file -- > there may be more than one -- and find the driver details in there.) nvidia/amdgpu *seperate systems > Is the xserver-xorg-legacy package installed? apt install i3-wm xinit don't pull it. > Do you have all the firmware installed that your video card wants? > (Look for "firmware" in dmesg.) firmware-amd-graphics/firmware-nvidia-gsp --