On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 08:09:24AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > On 05/24/2018 02:29 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hi KatolaZ :-) > > > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 07:01:26AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > >> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 07:52:16PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> [cut] > >> > >>> > >>> Some additional information. > >>> > >>> First, the hardware concerned is an i5 processor with Intel > >>> graphics, usually well supported by xorg. > >>> > >> > >> Before you get lost looking for ghosts: that's nothing related to > >> hardware. In ASCII permission to run xserver as mortal user is not > >> automatically granted any more (comes from Stretch). There are several > >> threads in dev1galaxy about that, and at least 2 solutions, which I > >> don't remember about unfortunately. I am sure fsmithred or msiism will > >> come to the rescue. > > > > Aside from the changes to /etc/apt/sources.list, I really > > didn't look into ramifications of upgrading. With > > Apple-fanboy optimism, I expected everything to just work. > > > > I did look at the Upgrade to Ascii notes, but not at > > the dev1galaxy forum. > > > > Thanks for the encouragement! > > > > (writing from a console -- at least I can sort-of > > function despite problems with the graphic windowing > > environment :) > > > > Joel > > > > > > Yes, there are two solutions to be able to run startx as user. > > 1. Make sure xserver-xorg-legacy is installed and add the following line > to /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. X will be running as root. > > needs_root_rights=yes > > or... > > 2. If you'd like to run X with only user privs, install libpam-elogind.
Thanks, fsmithred Both methods work. I note that elogind uses DBus and policy-kit. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
