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Subject: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag
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  I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X.  I
checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website
http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact
problem, and more importantly, the solution.

* Up til now X has been installed suid by default.  This is what allows
  regular users to start X with startx <G>.

* According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog  USE="suid"
  has been enabled as of December 20, 2012.  If you do not enable it,
  you will not be able to run startx as a regular user.  xdm and other
  X login managers will still work.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications