[artix-general] Xorg rootless

[Xavier B.]

Yeah!, I previously checked the wiki archlinux.
I think one of the options is install ly (I use XFCE4).

I use lightdm but -rc package is not installed? Is it strange?

$ rc-update 
                acpid |      default                           
          agetty.tty1 |      default                           
          agetty.tty2 |      default                           
          agetty.tty3 |      default                           
          agetty.tty4 |      default                           
          agetty.tty5 |      default                           
          agetty.tty6 |      default                           
               binfmt | boot                                   
           bluetoothd |      default                           
             bootmisc | boot                                   
              cgroups |                                 sysinit
               chrony |      default                           
             connmand |      default                           
          consolefont | boot                                   
               cronie |      default                           
                cupsd |      default                           
                 dbus |      default                           
                devfs |                                 sysinit
                dmesg |                                 sysinit
              elogind | boot                                   
                 fsck | boot                                   
             hostname | boot                                   
              hwclock | boot                                   
              keymaps | boot                                   
            killprocs |                        shutdown        
    kmod-static-nodes |                                 sysinit
                local |      default nonetwork                 
           localmount | boot                                   
             loopback | boot                                   
                   ly |      default                           
              modules | boot                                   
             mount-ro |                        shutdown        
                 mtab | boot                                   
               net.lo | boot                                   
             netmount |      default                           
         opensysusers | boot                                   
     opentmpfiles-dev |                                 sysinit
   opentmpfiles-setup | boot                                   
               procfs | boot                                   
                 root | boot                                   
         save-keymaps | boot                                   
    save-termencoding | boot                                   
            savecache |                        shutdown        
              seedrng | boot                                   
                 swap | boot                                   
               sysctl | boot                                   
                sysfs |                                 sysinit
            syslog-ng |      default                           
         termencoding | boot                                   
                  tlp |      default                           
                 udev |                                 sysinit
         udev-trigger |                                 sysinit
                  ufw |      default                           
                  xdm |      default                           
[xan at coronari ~]$ 

 ps aux | grep lightdm
root      2698  0.0  0.0 378868  6856 ?        SLsl 14:51   0:00 /usr/bin/lightdm
root      2712  2.1  0.6 647864 111148 tty7    Ssl+ 14:51   0:13 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
root      3104  0.0  0.0 234264  8032 ?        Sl   14:51   0:00 lightdm --session-child 14 21
xan       4688  0.0  0.0   9112  2388 pts/0    S+   15:02   0:00 grep --colour=auto lightdm


Anyone knows what happens?

Xavier



On Wed, 24 May 2023 21:38:40 +0200
artist <artist at artixlinux.org> ha escrit:

> Hi Xavier,
> 
> lightdm does not support root-less X:
> Note that some populardisplay managers 
> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager>do not support 
> rootless Xorg (e.g.LightDM 
> <https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/18>orXDM 
> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDM>).
> 
> I use greetd for this, and there should be more alternatives.
> 
> artist
> 
> On a bended knee, or systemd, you will never live free
> 
> On 5/24/23 19:45, Xavier B. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to run Xorg without root. I want to follow this guide [1] but obviously it's systemd centric.
> > How can I achieve this?
> >
> > I confirm Xorg runs as root:
> >
> > $ ps -o user= -C Xorg
> > root
> >
> >
> > I have lightdm installed
> >
> > $ ps aux | grep lightdm
> > root      2499  0.0  0.0 378868  8372 ?        SLsl 19:16   0:00 /usr/bin/lightdm
> > root      2513  3.7  0.6 646632 99836 tty7     Ssl+ 19:16   1:04 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
> > root      2903  0.0  0.0 234224  8008 ?        Sl   19:16   0:00 lightdm --session-child 14 21
> > xan       5774  0.0  0.0   9112  2304 pts/0    S+   19:44   0:00 grep --colour=auto lightdm
> >
> >
> > Can you please provide an specific steps I have to make to achieve that.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Xavier
> >
> > [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg