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Distribution: openSUSE, Raspbian, Slackware. Previous: MacOS, Red Hat, Coherent, Consensys SVR4.2, Tru64, Solaris
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Originally Posted by LegionOfHell
I ran startx as root(it didn't run) .. then I ran it as a normal user and it worked...
Did I mess something up by running startx as root ? should i fix anything ?
What distribution were you using? Just curious about which one didn't even allow you to run the GUI as root. My guess is that the distribution maintainers customized the startx script to detect a root account and (silently?) exit w/o even letting Xorg to run.
I've never had Xorg not run as root. It is not suggested, though, and most distributions I've done that on complain to the user about doing it. You probably haven't harmed anything.
What distribution were you using? Just curious about which one didn't even allow you to run the GUI as root. My guess is that the distribution maintainers customized the startx script to detect a root account and (silently?) exit w/o even letting Xorg to run.
I've never had Xorg not run as root. It is not suggested, though, and most distributions I've done that on complain to the user about doing it. You probably haven't harmed anything.
It is not suggested, though, and most distributions I've done that on complain to the user about doing it.
Hasn't happened to me, but forum helpers seem universally committed to pointing out emphatically one shouldn't deign to do so lest some evil make the PC suffer some irrecoverable misfortune.
OP, what leads you to believe that something is messed up?
I know that many distros block root from logging in directly via a GDM, but, when I can boot to the command line (e.g., Slackware), I've also not encountered any issues starting X as root.
It might be helpful to see the contents of the dot-xinitrc file.
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