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> hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user Wait, what? https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H This isn'
by zanny 12y ago
> hey - it's the only OS in the world allowing you run Xorg as an unprivileged user
Wait, what?
https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H https://imgur.com/ZrdgN1H
This isn't some custom repo or anything, I'm just running stock Arch and have startx in my bash profile. It runs in user mode, and has for about the last half year.
- hiphopyo 12y agoI could be wrong, but I was under the impression that that wasn't the case? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_systemd_user_service https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Xorg_as_a_... Unfortunately, to be able to run xorg in unprivileged mode, it needs to run inside a session. So, right now the handicap of running xorg as user service is that it must be run with root privileges [...snip...] It seems likely that xorg could be modified [...snip...], and then it could run unprivileged from a user service outside a session.
- zanny 12y agoThats in the context of using xorg as a systemd user service. You can run startx as a normal user and have the server run unprivileged just fine.