Linux

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

aka, is it RIGHT ?

parent

[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com [S] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

sddm just says it failrd to change owner of the socket if i do sddm in the console.

hideshow 3 child comments

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

doesn't sddm need to run as root? i thought that all managers did.

parent

[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com [S] 1 point 4 weeks ago

sorry for answering 4 days later. Idk, it says sddm supports rootless xorg, also gdm supports it by defualt sometimes ig? (lightsm doesn't support rootless xorg)

It says that when I try to start it from the console with the file that sets the thing to x11-user otherwise o don't remember what it says probably just that I need root to run it.

parent

[–] TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago

Hey, use namei with some flags to find out if the directory lets the socket be created by that user and if there’s a directory in the tree that keeps that user from traversing it.

parent

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Shouldn't you replace "x11-user" with your username?

If you still can't get it to work, take a look here and try the startx comand on a tty first (a display-mamager is yet another layer of complexity and potential blockers). If you get permission errors, try adding your user to the video group.

If you want to do it manually (without some limitations of startx), take a look at sx.

[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com [S] 2 points 1 month ago

No apparently you don't need to replace it, if you do it just starts it as root. I can start xfce4 with startxfce4 as user but i can't start sddm as user from console, only as root. I did try changing it to x11-(username) and just (username) it was the same as just doing x11 or not having the file, although I could also have done something wrong there.

At this point just changing the dm might be easier tbh. Although idk if that woulf actually work. I believe it starts x with the sddm user and not your actual user because, well, you're not logged in

parent

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I'm feel you're jumping right into the problem from some tutorial or not-so-common knowledge. We do not have that context.

Is "x11-user" defined anywhere? sddm must know what to do with that setting.

[–] UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com [S] 1 point 1 month ago*

Eh, I mean I did look at some tutorial but also some forums and at the archwiki for xorg, Idk if I looked at the one for sddm but it doesn't say anything different from what I saw, I kinda looked into the gentoo wiki for rootless xorg too or whatever but that didn't help much.

I am not expecting you to 100% know everything and help it's like well maybe someone might know what's wrong. idk.

parent

[–] DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

no idea if relevant, but isn't 'needs_root_roghts' a typo? not 'rights' ?