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From: "Björn Fischer" <bf@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:59:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e78e9db2-0de5-a606-a4d7-b2db5c50a1ac@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZIp1qZlH3/Xyryu2@ca.inter.net>

Hi Philip,

> My user is in 'tty wheel usb input video' (among others).

that shoud suffice.

You need to use '-keeptty' for xinit and preselect a TTY. For myself I 
have put this into my bashrc and it works quite well:

xinit ()
{
     local VT;
     local DISPLAY;
     VT=vt$(tty | sed 's/.*tty//');
     DISPLAY=:$(pgrep -cf 'X.*keeptty.*vt');
     /usr/bin/xinit -- $DISPLAY -keeptty -wr $VT
}

Cheers
Björn


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-16 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-14  0:21 [gentoo-user] can't start X as user Philip Webb
2023-06-14  0:36 ` Jack
2023-06-14  8:53 ` Michael
2023-06-15  2:21   ` Philip Webb
2023-06-15 12:32     ` Michael
2023-06-16 12:59     ` Björn Fischer [this message]
2023-06-14 15:23 ` [gentoo-user] " James Cloos

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