Re: How to start X as non root user without using display manager
Thanks! This is works great! Chris On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:03 AM, TeXitoi wrote: C R McClenaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone. Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid name|uid option to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. If I login using a usb keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem. to start X without owning the console, see /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Thoughts? Personnally, on debian, I use that in /etc/inittab : 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin 38400 tty2 and autologin : #!/bin/sh exec su -l user -c startx -- vt4 Thanks to getty in inittab, the console is owned by the launcher, and /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config do not nead to be touched. to customise your xsession, just customise .xsession. -- Guillaume Pinot http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/ ~pinot/ ``Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.'' -- Donald E. Knuth, the TeXbook () ASCII ribbon campaign -- Against HTML e-mail /\ http://www.asciiribbon.org -- Against proprietary attachments ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How to start X as non root user without using display manager
C R McClenaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone. Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid name|uid option to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. If I login using a usb keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem. to start X without owning the console, see /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Thoughts? Personnally, on debian, I use that in /etc/inittab : 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologin 38400 tty2 and autologin : #!/bin/sh exec su -l user -c startx -- vt4 Thanks to getty in inittab, the console is owned by the launcher, and /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config do not nead to be touched. to customise your xsession, just customise .xsession. -- Guillaume Pinot http://www.irccyn.ec-nantes.fr/~pinot/ ``Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.'' -- Donald E. Knuth, the TeXbook () ASCII ribbon campaign -- Against HTML e-mail /\ http://www.asciiribbon.org -- Against proprietary attachments ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: How to start X as non root user without using display manager
Hello On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:44 -0700, C R McClenaghan wrote: I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone. Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid name|uid option to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. If I login using a usb probably, this maybe of interest http://airlied.livejournal.com/59521.html keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem. Thoughts? Chris ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Ritesh Khadgaray Ph: +919970164885 Desktop LinuX N Stuff, RHCE Software Maintenance Engineer, Pune, Red Hat ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
How to start X as non root user without using display manager
I'm hoping to boot into a non privileged user to use the phone. Does anyone know how to start X as a non root user without using a display manager. My attempts to simply add --chuid name|uid option to start-stop-daemon result in the error message - X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. If I login using a usb keyboard an issue startxfce from the shell there isn't any problem. Thoughts? Chris ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
