How are you starting X in the first place? Are you using a
display manager? Are you running startx?
In the former case, this is perfectly normal for many display
managers, including SDDM. GDM, if I'm not mistaken, can and does
run X as a regular user if possible. Upstream has been talking
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:58:30 -0400,
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> There's a news item about disabling the "suid" use flag on
> x11-base/xorg-server, which makes it runs as a normal user rather
> than root. Version 1.20.8-r1 of the ebuild disables "suid" by
> default. After updating to that and
There's a news item about disabling the "suid" use flag on
x11-base/xorg-server, which makes it runs as a normal user rather than
root. Version 1.20.8-r1 of the ebuild disables "suid" by default. After
updating to that and rebooting, X still runs as root though:
$ ps aux | grep X
root 270
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