On 2023-06-02 16:32 +0000, therealcyclist wrote:
> 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?
As long as there is a working kernel driver for all your graphics cards,
this is not intended.
> I have fixed the problem by adding the following line in
> /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
>
> needs_root_rights = no
>
> After that xorg runs as user.
That is rather strange. The source of the wrapper program that decides
whether Xorg needs root rights has not been touched for many years[1].
Cheers,
Sven
1.
https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xserver/xorg-server/-/commits/debian-unstable/hw/xfree86/xorg-wrapper.c
