Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

[Björn Fischer]

Hi Philip,

My user is in 'tty wheel usb input video' (among others).

that shoud suffice.

You need to use '-keeptty' for xinit and preselect a TTY. For myself I 
have put this into my bashrc and it works quite well:

xinit ()
{
    local VT;
    local DISPLAY;
    VT=vt$(tty | sed 's/.*tty//');
    DISPLAY=:$(pgrep -cf 'X.*keeptty.*vt');
    /usr/bin/xinit -- $DISPLAY -keeptty -wr $VT
}

Cheers
Björn