<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi Xavier, lightdm does not support root-less X: <span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> Note that some popular <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager" title="Display manager" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 119, 187) !important; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">display managers</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> do not support rootless Xorg (e.g. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 119, 187) !important; background: url("/resources/src/mediawiki.skinning/images/external-ltr.svg?59558") right center no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-right: 13px; font-weight: bold; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">LightDM</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> or <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDM" title="XDM" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 119, 187) !important; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">XDM</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">). I use greetd for this, and there should be more alternatives. artist <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">On a bended knee, or systemd, you will never live free</pre> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/24/23 19:45, Xavier B. wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20230524194531.d79023b2450e675e913e8966@posteo.net"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>